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

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

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.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.