A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

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

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

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.

Songwriting is my gift from God

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship.

When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?

Liars make the best promises.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.

It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic.

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.