Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.