Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn’t mean you cannot see them.

What are you worried about, Burke?""You, me, fall, friends, college, life. Nothing big.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

Kids are starting to dress the same, listen to the same music. I look at their Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

Love is the strongest force in the world.

Dare to dream... and when you dream, dream big.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.