Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.