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

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.

Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

Where there is a dirt - we can clean! Yes true but none cleans garbage dumps!!

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.

If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

Do you agree that when theres tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

For me, I'm a skateboarder.If I'm not skating then I'm going crazy. The big deals, if I'm not skating, it's not worth it.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.