The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me

It kills me to see people think that, show business is sex, drugs and rock and roll. And I have what you call a meet and greet. I do it before the show. But when I was doing it after the show especially, there would be people who would come back and said, OK, Smoke, where's the party?

Without you hearing a melody or music or anything like that, it would say something to you. So, that's what a song is to me. Now, you have a lot of songs that come out, and the beat carries them over there, because of the beat, and because of some other factors and so on and so forth. But I want mine to be a song, if you read it, it's going to mean something to you.

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.