Larry King gets up every day at 6 a.m.
The nanny arrives.
He has breakfast with his nine and 10-year-old sons.
He reads his newspapers.
He takes his kids to school.
"I like that ritual. I like seeing them go through the doors with their little backpacks. I messed things up with my eldest. I don't want to mess up this time."
He has three adult children. He didn't find out about the existence of Larry King Jr., until his son was 33 years old.
"My children were all created without Viagra," he said.
His wife, Shawn Southwick-King, is much younger than him at 49.
Larry then goes to get his hair done at his stylist's on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
"I don't have a choice, I can't see the back of my head."
He then goes to spend time with friends at his favourite lunch place, the Naten Al Deli.
And what about work in that busy day?
"I go to CNN around 4 p.m., and it's finished at 6 p.m. It's perfect like that. I get time with my boys."
- His worst-ever interview: the actor Robert Mitchum, whose answers consisted only of yes and no.
- His most memorable interviews: Frank Sinatra, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton. Clinton wrote a passage for his upcoming book. "I was proud. It's rare for an ex-president to do that."
- Who would he like to interview: Jesus Christ and Hitler, "because demons don't just wake up one morning and decide to be evil, there's something that sets them off." And Lincoln, "I'd like him to give his opinion on society," and finally Castro and Bin Laden, to ask --"Why?"
