I can only control what I can control.

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

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.