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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.