My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.