I wish you had linked the actual interview [0] because it took me way, way too long to find it in the linked article, which only offers two select quotes from said interview, and spends way too long praising the guy that got it for how rare a privilege it is.

[0] - http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watte...

Edit: I'm slightly mistaken -- one of the quotes is actually from his previous interview, here:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-...