Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
I've interviewed people where their response was literally one word for everything I asked. This didn't help me get to know them, nor did it sell me on their skill set to help my company achieve its goals. I got nothing from them, which meant I had no way of knowing if they were really a good fit in the company.
That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.
I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.
I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.
When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.