Gavin Newsom Quotes

I really enjoy working as a pundit.

I think punditry serves no purpose.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

I'm not Gore Vidal or William Buckley.

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.

I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.

Lots of people ask me, 'What do you do?' Apparently, being a columnist, TV bird, all-round good egg, mother of three, and wife of one is not sufficient for them.

Suddenly, I'm like this political Ann Landers, which is a role I'd never envisioned for myself.

I am not Laura Kuenssberg and I'm never going to be.

I'd happily describe myself as a TV presenter now.

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job.

I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona.

I don't generally like to watch myself.

She's not your type. Since when do I have a type?

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

People who have experience and credentials, they should be talking about that [Donald Trump presenting on TV]. I know everybody cares about ratings, but come on. The whole world is watching.