I Think The Interview Form Works Best

The Line Changed My Life 'cause I Thought Of Some Poor Woman I Hadn't Even Met Walking Around The United States Or The World Not Knowing She's Going To Be Beaten Up By Me And These Kids, Unborn, Not Knowing They Were Going To Be Born Into The Family Of A Child-beater Just Because I Was. So It Really Did Have A Great Effect On Me.

Often Real Life Is Boring And Problematic. I Love The Edited Version Of It.

I Learned That I Never Really Know The True Story Of My Guests' Lives, That I Have To Content Myself With Knowing That When I'm Interviewing Somebody, I'm Getting A Combination Of Fact And Truth And Self-mythology And Self-delusion And Selective Memory And Faulty Memory.

Dad Mistook - For Some Reason Unbeknownst To Me - He Mistook His Family For A Platoon Of Marines. I Mean, He - The Exact Same Thing He Brought To The Disciplining Of A Squadron, A Battalion, A Platoon, He Brought To The Disciplining Of His Children. He Ran The House - He Had Saturday Morning Inspections For Us, He Had White-glove Inspections For Us As Kids.

I Know That Everyone Who Listens To Radio Creates You In A Visual Image That They Need You To Have. Whatever That Is, I Thought, Let Them Have It. Let Me Be Who The Listener Needs Me To Be And Let Me Not Contradict That With The Reality Of My Photograph And Risk Disappointing Them.