It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

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.

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. 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.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

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.

Always be consistent.

I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.

Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet but they are alive and well in our imaginations.

We tend to be distracted by the voices in our own heads telling us what the design should look like.

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Sometimes you have to forget what you want in order to remember what you deserve.

Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.

I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

Sometimes what appears to be a setback is Gods mode of elevation.

An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in.

I want to establish myself as someone who can act and doesn't have to rely on my figure or modelling background.

I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... even if that montage was all I'd seen, just as a short film, that was great. That was my favorite thing of the year.

I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there's lots of duplication in government. But when you ask someone, 'OK, name two programs that are duplicative,' typically there's a long pause.

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.