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Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.