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.

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

Detroit is full of talent.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

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

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

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

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

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

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

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.

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

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

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

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 have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

Divas need their furs!

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

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.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I will always dance in the street.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

You cant 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.

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

Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

Ive got more respect for someone who comes out and says they dont like me than for the ones who act like they do but talk bad about me when Im not around.

There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.

You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.

At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.

I don't know what'll ever happen if I'm in a healthy relationship. My writing career will go down the tubes.

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Well the beauty of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men - the sons, the fathers, the husbands - because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

Fortitude is the capacity to say no when the world wants to hear yes.

I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.