All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

Today's business climate is not for me.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha Christie

The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.