Tom Junod

Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into…

— Tom Junod

I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't.

— Tom Junod

We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies…

— Tom Junod

I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to.

— Tom Junod

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

— Tom Junod

My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island…

— Tom Junod

That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does…

— Tom Junod

I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for…

— Tom Junod

Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of…

— Tom Junod

I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough…

— Tom Junod

I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the…

— Tom Junod

Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success.

— Tom Junod

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and…

— Tom Junod

I had heard a lot of stories about my father and celebrities, most of them from his own mouth. In his stories,…

— Tom Junod

You learn a lot about America when you own a pit bull. You learn not just who likes your dog; you learn…

— Tom Junod

Mark Zuckerberg is the product of Facebook just as surely as Facebook is the product of Mark Zuckerberg.

— Tom Junod

Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.

— Tom Junod

Food's not done until it yields something, maybe its soul or maybe just its secrets, and how long you're willing to wait…

— Tom Junod

The pit bull is not a breed but a conglomeration of traits, and those traits are reshaping what we think of as…

— Tom Junod

Once upon a time, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Then he took…

— Tom Junod

One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he…

— Tom Junod

Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.

— Tom Junod

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel;…

— Tom Junod

There are only three questions that matter in the kitchen if you're cooking and not baking. The first is how good are…

— Tom Junod

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to…

— Tom Junod