The Talks interview
Rotten gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses whether he fear illness and not taking a step back from the excessive lifestyle.
I haven’t! I’m no Puritan, not by any stretch. I’m quite comfortable doing what I do and I see no need to cease anything. I’m not habitual. I could never be addicted to a substance, because I get bored with doing the same thing over and over. It amazes me when I hear of drug addicts. Don’t they get bored? What next? Done that.
PopMatters interview
Smith discusses her music in anticipation of the release of her new album, She, and contrasts it to her debut album, For Lovers, Dreamers, & Me.
I’ve been singing that CD for at least three or four years on a pretty consistent basis. I played it a lot. Thinking about it now, I didn’t write half of those songs. I wonder if that made it feel even longer. I was just singing and singing and singing and they weren’t even all my songs. They weren’t all about me. I don’t know when I would actually get tired of singing these new songs. They’re just so much closer to my heart.
Sarah Austin interview
Seacrest interviews Austin during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about TV show Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.
I’m a little bit nervous how people are going to respond to me, but at least I know that I am authentically plugged in in Silicon Valley and that’s all I can be.
Halle Berry interview
Williams interviews Halle Berry and questions her about her rise to fame, new husband and family.
He wanted me to be a beauty queen so he said, I’m gonna put you in this thing and he did. I showed up at the pageant and wore my prom dress that I had just worn to prom and miraculously I won it. It put me on a journey that led me to meet my manager that I’ve known for 25 years that put me here to be able to sit here and talk to you. So it’s kind of like what our movie is about, things happen very poignant and defining things happen in our life and at the time we don’t know what this is going to mean. It seemed so frivolous at the time, a beauty pageant winner, okay but it led to a lifetime relationship.
LaBeouf demands raise
Star Magazine claims LaBeouf wants a $3 million raise from the $15 million he made with Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The tabloid’s source adds that the actor’s trash-talking about the movie might have also lost him the claim.
Elle Magazine interview
Krasinski gives interview to Elle about dealing with the ending of his TV series The Office.
With the show coming to a close, my identity of being that character is going to be over. Basically I’ll be relying on what I’ve built and what I am and who I’m trying to be. So there’s a total terrifying fear there. There’s also the terrifying fear of writing something and being like, ‘This is actually who I am and who I’ve always wanted to be I hope you guys accept that.’ That’s terrifying. Now I’m talking to you like I’m on a couch. Let’s talk for an hour about how terrified I am of life.
JWoww interview
Seacrest interviews JWoww during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her sky diving engagement proposal.
Trying to kick him [the skydiving instructor] off me. I was like ‘unstrap me! I want to get to Roger! But when and where will the wedding take place? Hopefully it will be this Spring or Summer. I want to take 500 friends and family to Vegas. I’m trying to figure all that out. Hopefully I can make it happen!
Inc. interview
Branson tells Leigh Buchanan and Andrew McLean for Inc. that it’s possible to succeed in a first venture:
Everyone who creates something is doing something audacious because the most difficult time is when you’re starting from scratch with no financial backing, just an idea, and you’re trying to get your very first venture off the ground … true audaciousness comes from those people who just have the pluck and the courage to say screw it, let’s do it, I see a gap in the market, I may fall flat on my face and it may cost me everything
The Talks interview
Delpy gives an interview to The Talks. She discusses the kind of movies she hates and scaring off boyfriends.
I think that men maybe feel like they lose their purpose. It is an interesting change in history. It is the first time that women are working, taking care of kids, doing kind of everything. And men should be around, obviously. I think it is really the best thing to have a family and stuff like this. But I think it maybe makes them feel not as needed as they used to be needed in the past and I think it makes some men, not all men, insecure in a certain way. But I am not saying that every man is scared of independent women, just some are.
Nicki Minaj interview
Seacrest interviews Minaj during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and asks her what her Holloween costume will be.
I think going to probably go as Miley Cyrus. Because she is going as me and I just saw her picture on Twitter. I could do the short blonde buzz-cut like Miley. Check out the pic of Miley in costume below.
Forbes interview
Branson tells Forbes that many presentations are ineffective:
Too many people are hiding in dark rooms flipping through too many words on big screens. There’s a reason why I avoid boardrooms. I’d rather spend time with people ‘in the field,’ where eye contact, genuine conviction and trustworthiness are in full evidence.
Ideas should be concise:
From the beginning, Virgin used clear, ordinary language. If I could quickly understand a campaign concept, it was good to go. If something can’t be explained off the back of an envelope, it’s rubbish.
Wrestling101.com interview
Batista discusses his top accomplishments in WWE:
My biggest highlights were winning tag team gold with Ric Flair on two occasions, then of course winning my first World Championship in 2005 at WrestleMania 21 against Triple H is up there. Another WrestleMania match, even though I lost, was against The Undertaker in 2007 and that was probably the biggest match of my career.
Wired 2012 talk
At Wired 2012, Carter says that despite Little Monsters allowing Gaga to connect with her fans in an unprecedented way, the music industry doen’t care:
They’re not using the data. I can sit down with the guy from Spotify, and he shows me this spike on Fridays as people listen to Gaga before going to the clubs. When I go to South Africa I know to include this song in this set, because I know that’s a fan favourite, and also to take this song out. We’ve never had a direct relationship with an audience. When someone buys a CD we used to count them as a fan, but we never knew if they hated the CD and threw it out the window.
He says that Gaga used social media early because her music would not get played on the radio:
She didn’t look like a typical pop star, and the music was more four to the floor dance music, so radio wouldn’t play it. She’s at 30-something-million Twitter followers now because she had a headstart over everybody. The types of messages she sends are very authentic, so when she sends messages her fans engage. We started buying fan artworks, and including that in our actual merch line in the tour, because we found fans like art from other fans. They know what they want more than we know what they want.
However the media doesn’t define the message:
It’s like a download from God. We were in a meeting with Google, with Gaga and Larry Page, and Larry said to Gaga, ‘Do you ever a/b test your music?’ She replied, ‘Did Picasso ever a/b test painting?
Taylor Swift interview
Seacrest interviews Swift during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her belief in soulmates.
There are times when I think there’s just one person for everyone and then there are times where I think that you have to have a few great loves. I’ve had a few great like muses. So, I don’t know if that’s the same as great loves or if that’s just a different category all together.
WWE.com interview
Guerrero speaks to WWE.com about replacing AJ Lee as Monday Night Raw’s general manager.
I’m so glad that the Board of Directors has gotten to see me for the person that I am. I do have experience and I do have the expertise that AJ doesn’t because she’s very young and immature. I’m glad they put a real woman in this position.
Esquire interview
Warren gives her thoughts on the Obama financial bailouts:
You know, without restrictions, no. So I’m going to put it this way: It was clear something had to be done. The part that I was just beside myself over was the lack of accountability. I mean accountability in every meaning of that word: how the money would be given out, whether or not the banks would be accountable for it. Go back and look at that first report, because that’s what that first report is about. I could not believe that, that the treasurer of the United States government was shoveling money out the door to the nine largest financial institutions on a no-questions-asked basis…. And in some ways it was worse than that, because it not only had no restrictions to speak of, it had no restrictions in the statute — it was a bait-and-switch.
Justin Bieber interview
Winfrey interviews Justin Bieber in a tell all interview covering Bieber’s rise to fame and career.
My fans, I’m able to really connect with them through the internet and have that Twitter and Facebook and YouTube you know how I can upload videos and have them come and read their comments and reply to their comments. It’s like a whole different world.
WWE.com interview
Big Show talks to WWE.com about WCW’s Halloween Havoc and his memories of the event.
Both WCW and WWE performed in front of huge crowds, and at Halloween Havoc I was thrown right into the fire. For WCW, Havoc was definitely on par with SummerSlam, but even it couldn’t match the energies of WWE’s biggest events like SummerSlam and WrestleMania.
WWE.com interview
Booker T speaks to WWE.com about WCW’s Halloween Havoc and his own memories of the event.
When I was just a small fry, I looked at Havoc as an opportunity to be a fly on the wall, watch everything that transpired on such a big stage and see what made Superstars. It was like on the job training.
WWE.com interview
DDP speaks to WWE.com about WCW’s annual Halloween Havoc event and his memories of it.
It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam. We held the last five Havocs in Las Vegas and the fans were electric. There were celebrities visiting us backstage. It was the closest we got to the feeling of today’s SummerSlam without being at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.