There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

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.

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

Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you know what I mean. New York's not Geneva or Zurich yet, but we're certainly heading in that direction. London is, too.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.