If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

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

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.

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

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.

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.