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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.