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Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.

I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

I have a hard time with interviews, because I'd rather hear about the interviewer.

I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.