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"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."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I didn't really want to be a comedian."
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"I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything."
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"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."
Music
"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."
Journalism
"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."
Want
"You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works."
Journalism
"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."
People
"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."
Friendship
"I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s."
College
"So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense."
People
"So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time."
Time
"I know what the structure of the language is."
Language
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