Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Television's not going read stories to you.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

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.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.