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

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.

You will need to invest every bit of your time into your destiny and purpose if you truly desire to be great.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

I don't know about you, but this whole life thing has been the cause of all my problems.

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

I definitely need coffee all the time. I drink probably four or five cups a day.