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.

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

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

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people around him who can say, Michael, can't do this. Michael, you can't do that. Michael, you can't say this. You know, I think he has been so big for so long that he can do whatever he wants to do.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.