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.
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.
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
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.
I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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.
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.
If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.
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.
When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.