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 know what the structure of the language 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.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

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

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.