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"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."
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"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."

"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours."

"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."

"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."

"In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours."
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"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press."

"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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"I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines."

"What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible."

"I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off."

"In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that."

"A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business."

"If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to."
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