I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.

Choose something you like to do. I know its a cliche, and youve heard it over and over. But the reason is, youre going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.