I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.