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

When you write a song, a song has longevity

If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

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.