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

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 divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

Your graduation is a milestone in your life.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

I don't love getting up at the crack of dawn and having makeup put on my face for three hours - like, I really don't like it - and then having a part that's just not that challenging.

The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.

I play on all the consoles, but Xbox, mostly. I'm versatile, though, so whatever's going on, I'll take care of it.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.