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

We just seem to be surrounded on this anniversary show by all of our personal favorites. I have to say that in the first person, because they're my personal favorites.

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.

I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

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

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