Hollywood TV interview
Macfarlane is interviewed by Hollywood TV. They talk about his sabbatical from television and how long it takes him to create an episode of Family Guy. They also talk about what episodes will be coming next.
If I lost my voice who would take my place? I would hope John Viner would take my place.
Recalls early days
In an interview with CMT, Shelton recalls his early days in Nashville, Tennessee and shares his thoughts about his past singles, Ol’ Red and Austin.
Shelton on his first days in Nashville:
When I first hit town, there wasn’t much going on in my daily routine. I had about a two-week job there working for Mae Boren Axton, painting her house. Axton, the mother of singer-songwriter Hoyt Axton, wrote Elvis Presley‘s Heartbreak Hotel. Eventually I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually I got fired from that job. You know, after being fired and not being able to keep a job through the years … there’s no telling how many jobs I went through — four or five. At that point, I had worked my way into the community enough that I started singing a lot of demos and eventually got hired as a staff writer at Sony Tree Publishing. But my days were a country song. I would wake up in the morning, hung over from the night before, especially at that age. I’d try to write a song and do it all over again that night.
Shelton on his earlier songs:
Ol’ Red is so unique, and it’s definitely stood the test of time. It’s not anywhere close to being one of my biggest radio hits.
Austin was one of those songs that nobody would give a chance because it didn’t come from well-known writers or well-known publishers. Luckily for me, I wasn’t a well-known artist at the time. So you just never know.
WWE.com interview
Otunga talks to WWE.com about his fiance, Jennifer Hudson and the mainstream attention their relationship receives.
Yeah, it seems like everything I do gets a lot of media coverage. That was just one little thing I said and it’s kind of crazy how people just jumped on it and ran with it. Actually, someone asked me the question, “Hey, what do you think about getting married in the ring?” And I told them “Yeah, that would be cool. I don’t think Jennifer would go for it, but it’d be cool.” Now it’s just blown up and evolved, and it’s all over the place.
Fox Sports Radio interview
Krzyzewski gives his thoughts about coaching in the NBA:
I love the pro game. I love the guys I have a chance to work with in the summer.We are getting ready for the World Championships this summer. We have a pool of about 30 players that we’ll choose from and those guys are great. If I was a younger guy and had some of the success I’ve had in the college game, there is a good chance I would go to the pros. The last time was with the Lakers – five or six years ago. I had created so much equity and it was too good to leave. But with the Lakers in LA, you know is a basketball town. And with Kobe and Mitch, they do a great job. I don’t go there and they get the best coach of all-time.
KNBR in San Francisco interview
Curry speaks about becoming a point guard in the NBA:
If you watched highlights of my college career, my first two years, my freshman and sophomore years, all I did was come off screens and pretty much shoot. I played the point guard for about three minutes per game. Then last year, my junior year, that was something that I knew I had to work on if I was gonna make the transition to the NBA. I played full time point guard, had to do a lot of scoring, but at certain points, you’re gonna see double teams and more aggressive defenses and you gotta be able to distribute the ball where is supposed to go to make the easy shot.
1070 the Fan in Indianapolis interview
Stevens talks about Butler’s upcoming game against UTEP:
I think they’re a combination of a few teams. They beat UAB twice so they obviously figured out something that we couldn’t figure out when we played them earlier this year. They also play a little bit like Minnesota on the defensive end of the floor. They’ll mix in some traps, they’ll mix in some presses, some run and jumps and those kinds of things. They do a good job trying to keep you off balance in that regard and they have the athletes to do that.
WWE.com interview
Slater talks to WWE.com about NXT, Carlito and Christian (his mentor).
It’s thanks to him — he’s been so helpful. Christian has been around so long and done so much for the company, and he’s such a good mentor. He gives me such great advice — I’ve been applying it all and it’s been working so far.
WWE.com interview
Gabriel talks to WWE.com about NXT, his favorite wrestlers since childhood and African wrestling being different from American wrestling.
It’s very different. I think the USA is different from anywhere else in the world in fact. You know, South Africa is still a developing country, so we’re a bit behind in terms of the characters, but there’s still a huge variety of in-ring styles. There are so many big guys out there — I’m probably one of the smallest ever — but there are still quite a few high-flyers.
Fox Sports Radio interview
Mosley talks about his upcoming fight with Mayweather:
I want this fight because he was considered the best fighter out there. He came out of retirement and everybody considers him the best. You know I fought Margarito when he was the best and now I am fighting Mayweather because he’s the best and then Manny Pacquiao. We have to clean this division up and see who the real welterweight champion is – the welterweight king. Beating Floyd for me is different. I beat guys who can punch. I beat guys with good chin. I want to beat guys that’s the best pound-for-pound technician. That lets people know that I am well-versatile.
Elle Magazine interview
Forte gives interview to Elle about the biggest mistake he has ever made on a date.
Just after college I was really low on self-confidence. I’d gone on two dates with this friend-of-a-friend that had gone really well, but we still hadn’t kissed because I was thinking, Oh, maybe she doesn’t think of me like that. At the end of our third date, I walked her to the door of her apartment, and at the obvious time to kiss her I froze. As a joke I said, Why don’t you walk me downstairs? So she walked me outside, and there was another appropriate moment, but again I froze, and said, Okay, now I’ll walk you back upstairs. And I walked her back up to her door. And then: Okay, maybe I’ll walk you downstairs again. And she said, Ah, no, I think I’ll stay here. And she went inside. And her apartment door shut.
ESPN Radio in New York interview
Mayweather comments on upcoming fight with Mosley:
I’ve been trying to fight Mosley since he was dominating at lightweight and I was dominating at junior lightweight. For those that’s listening and don’t know what junior lightweight is that’s 130 and at that particular time Mosley was at 135. He didn’t want to fight me back then, he moved on to other things and I moved on and kept dominating the sport. I moved up in weight classes and he moved up in weight classes.
O Magazine Interview
Hanh gives his thoughts on being exiled from his home country of Vietnam for 39 years after going to speak at Cornell University in 1966:
Angry, worried, sad, hurt. The practice of mindfulness helped me recognize that. In the first year, I dreamed almost every night of going home. I was climbing a beautiful hill, very green, very happily, and suddenly I woke up and found that I was in exile. So my practice was to get in touch with the trees, the birds, the flowers, the children, the people in the West—and make them my community.
WFAN interview
Calhoun speaks about Connecticut’s recent road win over Villanova:
Yeah, Villanova’s a terrific basketball team. We played well, it was obviously Walker’s best game. He had 29 points and was absolutely terrific. Somewhere in the midst Mike, we had lost in our conference, we had lost a lot of games starting with the Kentucky game – tied game 3 minutes to go, Wall hits a 3 point basket going to the basket going against us, to the Michigan game where we were up with a minute and half to go, to Marquette where we had a 3 point lead with a minute to go, to Pittsburgh… We had a lot of tough breaks and some self inflicted wounds.
WWE.com interview
Bryan talks to WWE.com about the independent wrestling scene and wrestling Chris Jericho.
I was super excited to be in the ring with Jericho, because he was one of my favorites when I was in high school. He came into WCW probably 1996, 97ish and he was the guy on TV who was never given that great opportunity to be with the main-eventers, but he was always the most entertaining guy on the show. It was awesome, and then his ring-work of course is impeccable. He was one of the first guys who showed, him and Eddie both, were some of the first guys that showed that smaller guys can not only be great in the ring but charismatic on the microphone as well.
Describes ’95-5′ partnership
Carter is interviewed in Ad Age magazine about Gaga’s marketing partnerships. At this time Gaga has 2.8 million Twitter followers, more than 5.2 million Facebook fans. Digital-single sales are over 20 million, album sales are eight million. Carter says their partnership is “95-5”:
The only thing I do is manage the vision. Ninety-five percent of the time I won’t comment on creative, and 95% of the time she lets me run the business. The other 5% is where we debate about things like, ‘Do you really want to bleed to death on stage at the [MTV] VMAs?’ She wins even when we do have those debates 5% of the time.
Carter says he doesn’t want Gaga to ever look like she’s endorsing a brand — hence why she’s created products for Universal’s Beats By Dre headphones line, Viva Glam and now Polaroid as its new creative director.
You won’t see her face plastered on any packaging or anything. We’re comparing it to when Tom Ford went to Gucci or Steve Jobs went into Apple and brought a different thought process and taste level in. We’re looking for her to do the same exact thing at Polaroid. It’s not about her putting her name on something — it’s reinvigorating a brand.
Elle Magazine interview
Morgan gives interview to Elle about why women cant resist him.
Yeah, it’s because I have a masterful sense of humor. Sure (some may resist). But it would have to be somebody who wouldn’t give me the time of day. It’s different for me, because I can make you laugh within half a second. And I don’t even have to make you laugh; all I have to do is smile at you. Women just want somebody to be friendly. Most men, they just focus on the sex. They never looked in their eyes. You gotta be like Svengali, man! If she’s not spoken for and you come at her correctly, like a man, she’ll get with you.
Michelle Williams interview
Williams interviews Michelle Williams and questions her on life after Destiny’s Child and being in the Broadway production of Chicago.
It is going wonderful. It is a dream come true. I mean Broadway, I remember coming here over 10 years ago at the Time Square and seeing all of the lights for the Broadway shows and at the time I couldn’t even afford to go to one. Now I’m in one.
Esquire interview
Pawlenty gives his thoughts on the mistakes that the Republican Party has made:
We just lost our way. You can’t say that your hallmark issues are that we’re going to control spending, keep taxes low, and make government accountable, and then go to Washington and do the opposite…. Let’s face it, when Republicans had total control over it, they didn’t do what they said they were gonna do.
Mixergy interview
Graham talks about starting Y Combinator and funding early participants like Reddit.
That very first summer, I mean, the reason we decided to invest in start ups in batches, all at once, was because we didn’t know what we were doing … For both the hirers and the employees, summer jobs are kind of like a throwaway thing. So, we thought, well, as long as everybody treats summer jobs as a throwaway thing, we’ll have this summer program, and if it turns out to be a disaster, no one will blame us.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks about her view on self image and success.
It’s very helpful and important to understand what your self is.
