I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.

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

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.