You’re generally required to provide identification if you’re arrested and in some US states police can compel you to identify yourself under certain other circumstances, but otherwise yes, in the US you are never required to talk to police beyond this.
Unless legally required to. <---- the part to many forget
You are never legally required to talk to police. Only a judge can compel you to give a witness statement.
Well that just ain’t true.
You’re generally required to provide identification if you’re arrested and in some US states police can compel you to identify yourself under certain other circumstances, but otherwise yes, in the US you are never required to talk to police beyond this.
and all this is covered by comment #1 - “talk to an attorney, first and foremost”.