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Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.

I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.

People are not impressed by watching interviewees cry. People recognize chat shows with personalities as the trivial things that they are. They're not designed to be deep. Quite frankly, people in show business don't stand up to in-depth scrutiny.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

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

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

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.