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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.