What was your first job as a journalist?
Working for Jann Wenner's Us magazine, I was assigned to interview a 5-year-old French rap sensation. He threw a metal box at me.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Bill Murray in Groundhog Day
Why did you become a journalist?
To get paid to do things I wanted to do on weekends.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Go until they stop you.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That I have one.