Interviews Quotes

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now.

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his.

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

I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews.

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.

Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

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

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)

Paste is a great music lover's resource. I tend to agree with their album reviews and find their interviews a bit more intriguing than those of other music magazines.

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

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

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

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

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 love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

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

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

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

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror.

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

I would much rather have 1,000 visitors click over to my website via a podcast interview that I’ve done on someone else’s website than have 1,000 search result visitors from Google. Anyday.

In a radio interview [Ted] Cruz compared [Donald]Trump's behavior to schoolyard children throwing taunts at each other, vowing not to take part.

Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.

I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

I am very honest, even in interviews.

In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'

If Sony's not going to show 'The Interview,' that's it. No more North Korean movies for me.

I cannot believe that NSWRU don't want to interview me.