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.

Always be consistent.

Unsuccessful people are seduced by celebrity, name and fame.

don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

I've never proclaimed myself to be a shooter. But I am definitely a scorer.

Freedom is not given - it is taken.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.