- [on the red carpet at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]
- Jeff Krulik: Any favorites among the five honorees? Anybody you have a great story about?
- Aretha Franklin: All of them. I enjoy them all. 'Late Night' Letterman, Dustin Hoffman, 'Tootsie' and 'Rain Man', and uh, all of the wonderful movies that he's done.
- Jeff Krulik: You were at Atlantic Records...
- Aretha Franklin: That's right. That's right.
- Jeff Krulik: Do you have any good Led Zeppelin stories or memories?
- Aretha Franklin: No, but I met him last evening, and he's a very classy gentleman. I enjoyed talking with him. Led Zeppelin, yes.