I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.

I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my aunts were little, so we didn't have those kinds of heads of household. But all the members of our household who were female were sort of living as equal and as wise as the male figures in our family.