You know what, life is full of temptations

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

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?

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.