liberian—girl:

“It was weird…but I had to force him into being the dominant one when I was singing his song, ‘Muscles’.
One night in the studio he said, ‘I just can’t. I can’t tell you what to do.’
And I said, ‘You’re the man. You’re the boss on this one.’ I know him so well.
But sometimes even I’m stunned at how he can be so shy. He’ll hide, he’ll talk like this” – she lowers her voice to a halting whisper – ”then you let him onstage and he turns into this sexy, macho thing.”

— Diana Ross