This is our toughest one yet, ... It's fair to say Palau was a vacation compared to this.

It's not like everybody took a vacation during this transition period. We have been working on these issues all along throughout the past three months so it doesn't come as a surprise to people in April.

I've never had a spring vacation, ... I'm usually out snowblowing off the courts so the boys can start their spring running.

The notion of Exile Island was to remove someone socially as well as physically from the game. But there's simply not enough time, and you would see the same thing over and over: People hungry, sitting in the rain and trying to figure out how many more hours until they can go back to their beach.

Exile Island. There were a couple of times at tribal council this season where I was having an almost out of body experience and I realized: I'm getting paid to do this fascinating job!

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.