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Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

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.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but I happen to have loved the Four Tops most of all.