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

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.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

Art must destroy violence, only it can do it.

In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.

Without leaps of imagination we lose the excitement of possibilities.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

Passion is so much more than a feeling. It's living in the meaningful and joy-filled zone of ˜being' and ˜doing' your life's purpose.

I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

Naysayers are frightened by their own power.

Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose...All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.

I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art craving creates wonders.

I am dedicated to making sure Social Security will be there for future generations and have written legislation to strengthen the program.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace beauty spirit and freedom.