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

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

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.

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.