My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.