NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.
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 first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal. ' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes. ' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics. ' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.