I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.