I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.

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.

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

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.