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

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.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.