You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.

If I felt like not saying what was on the cue card, I would. We rarely did retakes.

I got a unicorn horn on my head once. I said, "Can you really see that on camera?" My producer said, "You can see it from space." I would have to angle my head a certain way so that I didn't look misshapen on camera.

What really takes me back is when I'm walking around the Lower East Side, because we went to so many places [there] - the bakery, a mannequin store, all these factories with mice running around. That also is very visceral and takes me back. Pool halls, tattoo parlors, all kinds of stuff like that.

I wondered how I was going to do it and keep my job at Rolling Stone at the same time. They were very nice, and they let me disappear for two days a week for a couple of hours. That's how long shooting was.

You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.

A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.