I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.
It doesn't matter if I go on CBS, PBS or Fox. Whoever is interviewing me is going to want to create some conflict in the story, or it's not interesting. That's just the way the news is.
Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.
I don't think, as a journalist, I'd ever get a story written. I'd probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I'd finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.