We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.

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

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't know how many thousands of times. And I promise you, every single solitary night, they're new to me. They are brand-new to me that night.

Everybody has their own soul.