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.

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

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

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

Television's not going read stories to you.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.