Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.

I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture.

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.