Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

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.

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

A complainer rarely succeeds

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.