Conan O'Brien has given his first post-Jaypocalypse interview to "60 Minutes," and CBS has released a few quotes from Sunday's broadcast of the newsmagazine.

“He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know-- I know me, I wouldn't have done that,” O’Brien told "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft. “If I had surrendered 'The Tonight Show' and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well -- and then…six months later. But that's me, you know. Everyone's got their own, you know, way of doing things."

What would he have done had he found himself in Jay Leno's position, Kroft asked. “Done something else, go someplace else. I mean, that's just me,” answered O'Brien, who'll begin a new late-night gig on TBS in the fall.

As for his relationship with NBC, O'Brien called it "toxic."

“I think this relationship is going be toxic and maybe we just need to go our separate ways,” he said of his relationship with the network. “That's really how it felt to me…and I started to feel that I'm not sure these people even really want me here….I can't do it [anymore].”

The Thursday press release from CBS follows:

CONAN O’BRIEN SAYS HE WOULD NOT HAVE DONE
WHAT JAY LENO DID TO HIM – “60 MINUTES”

In His First Post-Tonight Show Interview, He Tells Steve Kroft
He wasn’t Even Sure NBC Really Wanted Him to Stay

Conan O’Brien says he would have left NBC rather than do what Jay Leno did to him, in his first interview since being forced off the Tonight Show. O’Brien’s interview with Steve Kroft will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, May 2 (7:00-8:00PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

“He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know-- I know me, I wouldn't have done that,” O’Brien says. “If I had surrendered The Tonight Show and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well-- and then…six months later. But that's me, you know. Everyone's got their own, you know, way of doing things,” he tells Kroft.

Asked by Kroft what he would have done, O’Brien says, “Done something else, go someplace else. I mean, that's just me.”

O’Brien eventually left NBC, deciding not to play second-fiddle to Leno. He says he didn’t see the point in giving his all in a relationship that seemed to have no future. “I think this relationship is going be toxic and maybe we just need to go our separate ways,” he says. “That's really how it felt to me…and I started to feel that I'm not sure these people even really want me here….I can't do it [anymore].”