We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

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.

It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.

Who wants to wake up in the morning and have to remember that they've got to face Adrien Broner?

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.

The World Is Not Enough

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.