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

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 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.

Wherever there is ownership, there is upadhi (externally induced problems).

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.

Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

Nobody thought I would be a great coach.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.