Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

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.

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.

Believers believe in their own selves first- that’s the foundation for believing in others. For achieving anything, you have to have self confidence and faith in your own self.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

I believe it is very important to learn different fighting styles to make you a flexible fighter.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.