True that, I assure you my major professor spend most of 8 years convincing me (or trying to at least) that I couldn't do either.
I've always found the interview spectrum to be interesting, and when you realize it, and what it is, it explains a lot about popular culture. (and this has a lot to do with what we're talking about here). To wit:
Who's the worst interview? Across the board its got to be musicians, rock stars in particular. Who the ->-bleeped-<- even understands what Dylan/Petty/Ozzy are saying? Is there really a language in all the mumbled stuff? First you have the problem that music can only be talked about in a tangential manner - you know writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Added to that you tend to have a dynamic going on where the people who do this interviews (rock/music journalists) are little more than fawning sycophants with a bitter streak and they can't write, and so the people who can't write are interviewing people who can't talk - and all this largely for the benefit of people who can't really read. Yikes!
Writers can be interesting, in a very boring way. Monty Python had writers being interviewed down to a T. This is my theory... They may or may not be good at conversation - Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, yes, J.D. Salinger and Pynchon, not so much. But, the problem is they always end up referencing the book, and almost reading from it. But suffice it to say that putting words on the page does not always equal putting them into a conversation. And they tend to be - because its the job - solitary and reclusive a bit, and that almost always shows.
So, who's great? Well, who is our celebrity/Star system built around? Yes, actors. Not because they are don't also suffer from severe interpersonal problems (far from it) but because not only are they trained in using words, they are trained in lying to tell you exactly what they think you want to hear (and they are good at it, so they hit that target). They are no better at dealing with other people in a social situation, worse perhaps, but what they did was create a persona to deal with it for them. And the good ones create very good persona. So they thrive.
And that's kind a a social coping technique. I have a kind of 'Kat' out and about persona. Its a bit projection, a bit acting, and a bit invention, but in some ways it takes the part of 'me' that is scared out of the equation, and allows them to observe as kind of a third person deal.
