, why he gets on Cowboys fans, his love for Jerry Jones and his new book,Q: Everyone in North Texas thinks you’re a closet Cowboys fan.That’s a damn lie. That’s a damn lie. That is not true. I am not a Cowboys fan. I don’t hate the Cowboys, I can’t stand their fans, but it’s all love. What I mean by that is just strictly from a fun basis. You know, how we growing up and stuff like that you hate a particular team or you hate their fans and they get on your nerves. That’s all it is. It’s nothing.
Q: You and Molly [Qerim] have a really good chemistry. How does that work with a rotated guest? For instance, you have Michael Irvin on the show Thursday. How do you guys bring your chemistry together with someone else?Well, listen man, I think that it all rides with me. We know that I think Molly is an incredible asset to the show. She’s somebody I certainly need and don’t want to, do the show without, which they know.
Q: We forget sometimes that you’re a writer at heart and most writers want to write a book at some point in their career. What was the motivation behind your book?Well, it was time. It was the one thing in my career that I hadn’t done, I had done everything else and I had done everything else pretty successfully. I’ve been fortunate and blessed enough to do that.
Q: Everyone assumes your TV persona is who you are every day. Give them a little glimpse of who the real Stephen A. Smith is.I’m all things that you see. You see me on TV, I’m loud. Then I get mellow. I’m focused and serious as a heart attack, then I’m cracking jokes and laughing. I’m a multitude of things. I’m not one-dimensional. My personality in its totality is what you see on TV. Don’t look at one thing, look at it all. I can be loud. I can be lower in my monotone.