The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'

Love, peace and soul.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

When you come up with a good idea, you dont have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

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

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

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.

At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.

You have been forgiven, so act like it!

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

My views are just about the same as Casey's.

I'll continue to use Mac [McNamee] to train me. He's one of a kind.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.