#interview

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that. ↗

— Tom Araya

#book #could #few #figure #had

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews. ↗

— Bjork

#bit #i #interviews #played #spirits

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say,'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.' ↗

— Katy Perry

#believe #great #i #interviews #like

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. ↗

— James Rollins

#book #doors #generally #i #interview

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#awfully #chance #close #damn #get

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

#asks #change #did #how #i

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#interview #writing #dreams

My first thought was, “I got a haircut and trimmed my pubes for this job interview?” Then I thought, “Maybe being a political intern isn’t such a bad gig after all. I could learn the ropes that bind the people into bondage.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#dirty #haircut #intern #internship #interview

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#humor #interviews #on-fiction #science-fiction #humor

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1] ↗

— Ben Ratliff

#jazz-interviews #musicians-opinions #music