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I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

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

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

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

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.

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.

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

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

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.