There's So Much Kind Of Bureaucracy Involved

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.

I'm Really Interested In, Who's Booked The Guests, Who's Decided To Have Lena Dunham And To Have The Mothers Of Sons Who Were Shot - Sons And Daughters Who Were Shot By The Police And, You Know, The Other Performers, Paul Simon And Alicia Keys.

I'm First Generation American, And My Parents Were Both From Nigeria. And So I Always Say That I'm Literally An African American. So My Last Name Is Famuyiwa, It's Different. And So That Was A Part Of My Experience From People Not Being Able To Pronounce It To Not Sort Of Having Sort Of A Shared, Common History With A Lot Of The Kids That I Was Growing Up With Because My Parents Were From Africa.

I Think The Interview Form Works Best On The Radio. There Are A Lot Of Personality Traits Conveyed In A Person's Voice, The Rhythm Of Their Speech Or How Confident They Sound.

And Once You Say This Is True, You Start Naming The Beast That Hurts You - So I Started Doing This. Other Truths Come Out.