I think what they’re doing for College for Kids is magnificent. These retired football players, baseball players and all these athletes seem to be getting into this.

I’d start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You’d be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We’d look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

I learned a lot looking at things happening there … wasn’t too pleasant.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.