I vividly REMEMBER bowling 20 + GAMES a day, 2 or 3 TIMES a WEEK.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My GOAL, STARTING out, was just to SEE if I COULD be a JOURNALIST.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's RIGHT EVEN in the HARDEST TIMES and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

I don't know how many times I LITERALLY hear this. It's the worst PUN in the world from some idiotic frat GUY. It's LIKE, 'You must be 'Jealous' of Nick!' CONSTANTLY! It's like, why? He's doing his thing. I'm doing mine! He's happy. I'm happy.

I faced QUITE a few CHALLENGING times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not FACING those conditions. I'm actually of the BELIEF now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted HOPE.

I find, at TIMES, PEOPLE UNDERESTIMATE me. That's really an asset.