section_path: Personal life/Interviews
section_name: Interviews
paragraph_text: Interviews
  
  He is an artist wrapped densely in myth and enigma who, in person, in interview, creates as many questions as he answers. Is this guy crazy, or is he crazy like a fox? Missing a synapse or just as sensitive as a raw nerve ending? Startlingly honest or putting you on? Childishly naïve or a master manipulator?
  
  Wilson admitted to having a poor memory and occasionally lying in interviews to "test" people. In later years, many writers found Wilson challenging to interview, as his responses were usually curt or lacking in substance. Edgers wrote in 2000 that "no writer will ever understand Brian Wilson", highlighting his often "clipped and conflicting" responses, adding that he "generally makes it clear to interviewers that he would rather be somewhere else – and that's when he's feeling good". Salon ' s Peter Gilstrap wrote in 2015 that Wilson had been known to end interviews abruptly.
  
  He is an artist wrapped densely in myth and enigma who, in person, in interview, creates as many questions as he answers. Is this guy crazy, or is he crazy like a fox? Missing a synapse or just as sensitive as a raw nerve ending? Startlingly honest or putting you on? Childishly naïve or a master manipulator?
  
  Wilson admitted to having a poor memory and occasionally lying in interviews to "test" people. In later years, many writers found Wilson challenging to interview, as his responses were usually curt or lacking in substance. Edgers wrote in 2000 that "no writer will ever understand Brian Wilson", highlighting his often "clipped and conflicting" responses, adding that he "generally makes it clear to interviewers that he would rather be somewhere else – and that's when he's feeling good". Salon ' s Peter Gilstrap wrote in 2015 that Wilson had been known to end interviews abruptly.