Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

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.

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

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.

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

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

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.