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.

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.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

Television's not going read stories to you.

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