I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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