The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.