Bob Schieffer

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.