Quotes About Engagement

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.

I think the long interview has an important life.

If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.

I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview.

I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.

I've never declined to do an interview.

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Don't be the schmuck on the other side of the table. Don't get an interview with the guy. Be in the room with him while he's being interviewed by someone else.

When you're in the middle of an interview, it's so easy to stop listening and think about the next question you're going to ask. You can miss that golden moment which might take you in a different direction or a direction you didn't expect.

With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.

If I ever interview somebody, I make sure I listen to them. As a comedian, I've gone on so many shows, I've wanted to take things to a crazy place. Sometimes the hosts don't like that.

I take pride in how I interview people. One of the things people come to our show for most is the interaction I have with the artists; it feels very peer-to-peer.

If you interrupt somebody too early, if you miss it and don't interrupt at all - that's the difference between a good interview and a bad interview. It's about the absolute moment.

You've always got to have something to say, haven't you? For an interview. Something to talk about.

You have to be essentially ready to interview the President every day that you walk in, at any moment.

Like I always say - be where you're at. For me, that means that when I'm home with my family and the phone rings with a number I don't recognize, I don't pick it up; it could be an important call, or it could be a radio interview that I would usually make time for.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.