You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.
You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.
I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne.
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
Don't ever cheat on someone. I'm serious. It's not worth it. . . . The only thing infidelity does is remind you of the people you're not having sex with, which is something you can just as easily think about when you're completely alone.
How do I put this There are a lot of smart people writing about music but not a lot of people who are interested in journalism writing about music.
It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
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