It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

The president knows, as I know, there are no indispensable men. ... He knows that I serve at his pleasure, and that's that.

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.