Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

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.

Hobbies may eventually grow into a major activity that brings money

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

Nothing is so contagious as example.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.