Carson Daly Quotes

You know, I’m cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn’t. I wish I was raised by wolves.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and ‘Idol hit,’ I just didn’t watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of ‘Idol,’ this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you’d think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, ‘How did you make it?’ I’m like, Don’t worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.

NBC’s priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there’s me.