If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Don't pull your love out on me baby.