I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.
I am the luckiest guy I know.
Broadcasting through 9/11 together, like Katie Couric and I did, creates a bond.
I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.
People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.
You get your dream job and, in my opinion, despite anything they might say about you professionally or personally, you shut up, and you just do the job - and enjoy it.
When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.
When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.
I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.
Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?
My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
Times are harder there right now. I think it's been well publicized. We are - the show is not where I want it to be right now. The ratings are not where I want them to be. I want to make it better.
When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.
In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.
I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.
When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.
What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not.
I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
