Quotes from Smokey Robinson

Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.

I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

So take a good look at my faceYou'll see my smile looks out of placeIf you look closer it's easy to traceThe tracks of my tears

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

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.

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.

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.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

I don't like you, but I love you.

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.

There is nothing that means more to a woman than a love she can count on.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

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

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

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

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.