I interviewed him at the time, after he had been questioned and cleared by Tunisian police.
When I interviewed him at Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons, he was an hour late.
Federer expressed similar misgivings when I interviewed him at Wimbledon; he said that "every point repeats itself a little bit".
A few days after Chávez ordered his tanks to the Colombian border, I interviewed him at Miraflores, the Presidential palace.
But what really struck me, the first time I interviewed him at length, was that his hands were trembling.
On a visit to Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, late in 2010, I interviewed him at length about his organisation.
Despite occasional eruptions Davies is noticeably mellower than he was when I interviewed him at the start of the millennium.
Mr. Maliki was in Washington last week, and I interviewed him at the Willard Hotel, primarily to ask about his new party.
"Yeah, it was a nice full circle moment because I interviewed him at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Glasgow last year".
"I don't believe if someone sees a film by Tarantino they will go and kill someone," Haneke told me when I interviewed him at the New York film festival last year.
