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"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music."

"I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists."

"So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God."

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

"As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this."
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