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

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

I know what the structure of the language is.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

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.

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.