Most of the interviews I did over a 30-year span were aimed at extracting information of one kind or another from my interviewee. An interesting anecdote, perhaps, or some inside scoop about Hollywood or politics or dports.
But on rare occasions, I just threw my notes away and just had a fun conversation. And one of the most fun interviews I ever had was the ten minutes that I had on the phone one day in the fall of 2002 with the great Loretta Lynn.
She had just published her second autobiography, called Still Woman Enough. When I was offered a 10-minute slot with her, I couldn’t wait.
So here now, from 2002, Loretta Lynn.
Loretta Lynn died in 2022. She was 90.