Quotes About Perspective

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.

I had a lot of jobs before I got into music. When I was 15, I was a copy boy for the 'Evening Chronicle' in Newcastle. Then I was a journalist. I value those experiences - I got to see how the world works.

I think how football works, the way you have to look at football, that is the difference between Leicester and Newcastle. There is big motivation here to keep growing and to get better here at Leicester. I didn't feel they had it at Newcastle.

I've been on MSNBC and CNN and Fox News. Not just Fox News, not just CNN.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

I'm actually always looking for the good news.

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

U.S.A. Today is what happens when the coupon section takes over the newspaper.

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

You read some columnists in the newspapers; you have to wonder who they are really working for. You can see they have an agenda.

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

My parents taught me a great thing when I was a little kid to not read newspapers or follow the media.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan...' and they would say, 'Have fun!'