I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.

Someone said to me... ‘A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don’t you just make the request? Why don’t you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?’

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.