My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

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.

Poetry, will you show me where your words find peace?

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

In simplicity, there is freedom - freedom to do less and enjoy more.

Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work, and you get nothin' without struggle and hard work