Smokey Robinson

“When you write a song, a song has longevity.”

“You know what, life is full of temptations.”

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

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

“My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.”

“Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.”

“Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.”

“I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.”

“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.”

“Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.”

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

“Originally I was not writing songs for myself.”

“One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.”