They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

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

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.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.

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