The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

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.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.