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.

I know what the structure of the language is.

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

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

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 was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

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