Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

S. " Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song "I Feel Love" as "really the start of electronic dance" music. Unlike some other stars of disco who faded as the music became less popular in the 1980s and beyond Summer was able to grow beyond the genre and later segued to a pop-rock sound.

Joining a touring version of the musical Hair Donna Summer spent several years living in West Germany where Donna Summer married Helmut Sommer whose surname Donna Summer adopted as her stage name. Struggling with depression Donna Summer subsequently became a born-again Christian in 1980. Over the following years Summer followed this success with a string of other disco hits such as "I Feel Love" "MacArthur Park" "Hot Stuff" "Bad Girls" and "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)".