I'm impressed by the haircut and the set and the score and the song, but no, all I can hear is all of the notes that I didn't quite hit.

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The room has speakers all around, so I can hear the air rushing by.

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Often, when the grocery store is empty and all you can hear is the buzzing of flies, I think of that young man whose name we never knew and whom no one in town ever mentioned again.

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But, I can hear the cries already, what about the fact that over all women there is still a gender pay gap?

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When I call on you, if you could introduce yourself -- wait for the microphone so we can all hear you -- and then introduce yourself, and try to keep the question relatively short. (Laughter.) I will try to keep my answers relatively short.

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