Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.

If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.