 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. |
| Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff. |
| 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, probably late, to your editor. |
| Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment. |
| 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 was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s. |
| If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience. |
| I don't find music being less important than, like, politics. |
| I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. |
| And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with. |
