I know he has a reputation for being extremely arrogant and he never really did anything to change that, but these kind of interviews show a side of him that people just don't see, or refuse to do so

He certainly had (and has) enough self-belief to put himself out there and push, and he's been bragging about his music and saying outrageous stuff in the press for 30 years, but there's much more to him than that

You can see he's very self-aware and sometimes you'd even say honest to a fault, and I'd say there's even a hint of self-consciousness
I know people always point at him bame-dropping and embellishing stories and all that, but you also see how sincere and excited he is in his admiration for certain figures and how pure his love for music is
He can be hard on himself, but he's also at peace with how things panned out and the idea that his best days are behind him but they happened and that's all that matters
He knows his strenghts and played to them brilliantly, but he also ain't looking to hide his weaknesses
And while I get the feeling sometimes the criticism he got (the lyrics, the plagiarism, just them being simpletons that make simple music) bugged him and maybe even made him question himself at times, he's proud of achieving what he did starting from where he did, and he knows that's special

Some of the YouTube comments are annoying me. You can tell the Gibson old timers and “shredders” don’t think he belongs as an Icon. Shred away into obscurity, ya losers. No one cares about your dumb “licks”. Write a simple song that moves millions and we’ll talk.