There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it it's my ritual. I require tidiness actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

Well when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer ' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason I don't know.

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things probably the Internet as well.

But of course when people watch morning television Terry it's a very different animal. You know they're running around they're getting their kids ready for school they're probably doing eight million things they're brushing their teeth.

But you know they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.

When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.