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

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.

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.

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.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

The Unexpected GiftTorn asunder from her slumberin the hour of half past threeThe child knew the tyrannical regimeand followed instinctively.-(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)

I killed my ex lovers and buried to my memories' grave. It is JanuaryAnd I am tired of being brave.

If you are too proud, you don't do business.

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between their, they're, there.

But dear, don't be afraid of love it's only magic.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.