People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've realized why I don't tell the truth in interviews. It's because they're printed months later, and you change so quickly - you have new thoughts, new everything - so people are reading an old version of you.
I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.
I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.
I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.
For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.