The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.