And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.

Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

I don't think things like trust should just be handed out. You have to earn that.

Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.