Interviews Quotes - Page 14

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

I never think about the downs. Well, only when I get asked during interviews.

Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.

If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

I definitely feel moved and affected after interviews, but not in a way that's anything other than positive. There are moments that make me want to cry, but not in any way I can't handle.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

I'm just getting used to all the interviews and promo things, I'm slowly learning. It's very strange.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.