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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Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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We could not be happier.
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I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.
