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People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.

I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.