I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
When I hear the Spice Girls, yeah, all that '90s stuff, like Limp Bizkit. Dandy Warhols! Whenever I hear them, it takes me right back, because they were friends of the channel, too.
I started getting fan notes from people saying, "Oh, keep up the mess-ups," and I'm thinking, "I'm not doing it deliberately. This is just who I am. " But people thought it was funny. I guess if you're watching and you see that I could do it, maybe it gives hope that anybody can do it.
I wondered how I was going to do it and keep my job at Rolling Stone at the same time. They were very nice, and they let me disappear for two days a week for a couple of hours. That's how long shooting was.
We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and say, "You have to hear this, you have to hear that," and I found a lot of bands to feature, emerging bands. It [ended up being] symbiotic.
You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.
A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
I seem to have made my friends proud of meproud to know me. I also feel I've learned and grown a lot even in this short time, and this event has given me a lot of opportunity to continue doing so. Obviously there were a lot of negative reactions, but they seem to have overall little relevance to my life.
Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.
My favorite animals are dogs.