I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.