I had also done a little disc jockeying.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

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

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.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.

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

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

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

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

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

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

Garbage. It's a natural quality of huskiness in the midrange of my voice that I call 'garbage.' It's not a clear-toned announcer's voice. It's more like the voice of the guy next door.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

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

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?

How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.

Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

I'm always working with amazing people. They're just kind of put in my path.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over.

A Canadian is sort of like an American but without the gun.

UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

Aaliyah revolutionized what it was to be a young black woman in America. She made it OK to be a nerd and to be a tomboy. She made it OK to wear leather and chains. She was the first black girl with an ombre. She was so far ahead of everything and everyone. It was just who she was. She was an innovator, but she didn't even realize it.

I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

Pain and pleasure like light and darkness, succeed each other.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

I describe myself as a human being.

Regrets are the tears of choices not made and of good deeds left undone.

Each New Year we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last yearthe words we forgot to say the love we forgot to show and the charity we forgot to offer.