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.

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.

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.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.

Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars', I'd wind up owing them money.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

If it comes from Tom Hauser, it's the truth.

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.