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When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.