There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
You look at the Middle East, it's a total mess.
I remember when I interviewed at MSNBC, one of the first things they said to me was, 'In your tapes, you had a mustache, right?' I said, 'Yeah, I recently took it off. ' I said, 'If you hire me, you get to decide if you want it or not. ' They said, 'No, no, we're fine with it now. '
At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.
I like to report. I like to go to the newsmakers. I like to get out. I've heard about people talking about the anchor as the voice of god. That set is not an altar. It's a great job, I love doing it, but I don't take that role as my identity - the anchorman - it sounds very old-fashioned.
You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.
You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.
I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?
Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.
Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.
I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it.