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

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.

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

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.

When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.

Do what the client wants, not what you want.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.