I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.