Pausing, is a good thing. Nervous people rush. Nervous people just can't wait to finish that statement to the reporter. Finish that soundbite and get off the set or stop doing the interview. That's not what confident people do confident people through the course of natural conversation have pauses. Now, if you're on live TV, you don't want to for 30 seconds, but for a second, even two seconds, sometimes it will make you seem more confident, more comfortable, more relaxed, more conversational.

So, believe it or not, you do want to have pauses occasionally.