Michael Finkel Quotes
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
-
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.
-
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]
-
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.
-
Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview
-
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 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.'
-
My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
-
It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
-
The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
-
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
-
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'
-
I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.
-
I do all my interviews on the toilet.
-
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.
-
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."
-
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.
-
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.
-
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.
-
Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.
-
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.
