I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

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.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

Things that raise your energy usually don't involve humans; things that cause energy loss usually involve humans.

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.