You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
The fact is that we take music very seriously.
The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.
The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.