If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

I always used to say that I wanted to be the next MTV, the next ESPN, the next CNN rolled up into one, and everyone would laugh at me. But now I think that people are finally wising up because, digitally, you can do that.

You have to make those mistakes. You have to do the work. You have to fail. I also realized that I should practice what I preach, which is that if you only do get one kick at the can . . . When you go to places like Africa or Asia or the Indian sub-continent, you realize that a lot of the people there don't ever get a kick at the can. There are no "kicks" at the can - you just don't have that shot.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.