I remember my first check that I got for a thousand dollars, and where I grew up, I never thought I'd have a thousand dollars at one time.

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

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

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

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

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.