It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

Cutting taxes even more on the wealthy and corporations, that's not going to help anybody except the wealthy and corporations.

Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

Inspiration can come from anywhere - an image, a comment, something that's happened to me or someone I know. It's hard to know exactly.

I'm an interpreter of music.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.