Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.
I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.
Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.
Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
