Milo Miles in his interview with Steven Ward at rockcritics.com:

As to freelance writing, if you are not part of the scarce elite who get hitched to the slick-magazine gravy train you better be part of a two-income couple, as I am, if you want to get by at all.

And that was ten years ago, almost to the day, when there was still (or so it seemed at the time) a ground to stand on. (More on the economics of rock criticism here.)