You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

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.

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

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.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.