90 Quotes by Terry Gross

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know 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.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.