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 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

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.

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.

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.

Life is delicious. Waste not one bite!

A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather.

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.

You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.