That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

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.

of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

What excites you? What do you do well? What can you do better? In short what does success mean to you?

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.

God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.