I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

We're living in miraculous times where connections are made at the blink of an eye, the tap of a thumb, and the click of a mouse. We can never replace human interaction, but these simple actions can be powerful and meaningful to those we connect with.

The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

Discontentment makes rich people poor while contentment makes poor people rich.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

I think the Apollo has always been the people's performing arts center and reflected the community, whether it is Stevie Wonder or Tito Puente.

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit but I have developed worse ones since.

There is always one more thing to learn.

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.