When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.
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When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.
I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.
You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.
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.
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.
Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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.
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
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