Michael Azerrad Quotes

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

The media has had its fun with me.

The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don't have a personal interest in. It's because I don't trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.

It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened.

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his view of what the presidency should be about is the media and how he is reflected in the media.

Since I am an artist, I know the media can pick you apart.

I don't always agree with how everybody handles the media, just like they probably don't agree with how I handle the media and things that I say.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

I think a lot of the media and reporters, they let what I get into and my outside life interfere with my boxing life, and they let that cross, and that should never cross.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and how you position yourself with your narrative.

I don't really take into account what the media says. People have their own opinions about what goes on, but they don't see what goes on behind the scenes with an athlete and their preparation.

I barley read stuff about myself. Even when I see some article about myself in a paper or a magazine, nine out of 10 times, I skip it.

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.