It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.