Taking off straight up felt like bowling balls being hurled at my chest. I can pretend I've got the right stuff. We performed a maneuver called a 'squirrel's cage' out past Nantucket Island. Talking in the middle of a squirrel's cage. Otherwise, it depends on the interview.
Books are different.
Those are always fun. Confrontational interviews are hard. Some are people are corrupt and stupid. The hardest interviews, as all journalists know, are with families in tragedy. I have a degree in radio-TV news and I specifically avoided it because I didn't want to do a lot of these interviews.