The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people together and put them into societies and cultures and have laws and the idea of justice.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.