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 ….

Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… ….

Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has t….

Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I….

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 the….

Today's business climate is not for me..

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important..

But once I saw them [Jackson 5 during audition], I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so sp….

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..

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely comp….

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

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 ….

His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And ….

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

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