For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.
I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.
Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist
I know what God did for me. I know that He is my way out and my way in. He's my way out of all this havoc and my way into paradise. He suffered for me and for everybody listening. God loves us so much. He tried a lot of things to get our attention. He tried a lot of things to get us back to Him. So He said, "I'll tell you what. I'm going to make it real simple for you. I'm going to send my Son. He's going to take on all your iniquities and all your sins. He's gonna die in your place so you can have everlasting life. All you've got to do is accept that.
The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.
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.
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.
Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for. . . Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.