I don't trust a lot of journalists.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad and like to travel and wanted to be paid for it.

Of all possible subjects travel is the most difficult for an artist as it is the easiest for a journalist.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

When I started out as a music journalist at the end of the 1980s it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded beatbox disco soared indie rock took off and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

In a way film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal because if you lose it then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel I try and fill up notepads.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space observe and make a journal about the space flight and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper but I think I shied away from journalism.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.