There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

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.

Music without soul is a sound but sound with a soul is music

You know you are changing when you are moving towards something bigger than yourself. Your Life!

Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones.

To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.