Michael Finkel Quotes
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
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It's me! It's me! It's always me! [Darren when asked who smelled so good at the MTV Live interview in New York]
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It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
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Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview
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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.
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I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'
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My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
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It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
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The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
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The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.
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I do all my interviews on the toilet.
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I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.
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I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."
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I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
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We could not be happier.
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The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.
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I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.
