You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in.

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

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.

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