You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Detroit is full of talent.

Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believethey love liberty.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.