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.

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.

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

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?

Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!