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.

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

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

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

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

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.