But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it.

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.

The heart knows no logic, and rarely corresponds with the brain.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

I don't think labels are as important as results.

It can't hurt to have a backup.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.