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I’m not the betting kind.

I mean, Dad’s – you know, Dad’s friendliest tone was a scream.

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you’re realizing how great they are.

I’ve never liked euphemisms. I don’t say “passed away.” I say “dead.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

What puts someone on guard isn’t necessarily the fear of being found out.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I don’t think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don’t think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or – you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.

I don’t want to help a politician revise the truth.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

Rapists who might’ve been convicted were free to assault other women.

I think in particularly with young kids who don’t have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

I love the edited version of it.

I’ve never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I’m just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I’ve never felt that way.

And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you – so I started doing this. Other truths come out.

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You’re not distracted by somebody’s nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I’ve seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it’s like to be human.

I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there’s a great chance you’ll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there’s a terrific chance you’re going to be a child-beater.

I’ve always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I respect someone’s right to privacy and I want them to know it.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

That era in the late ’80s through the ’90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn’t quite gotten corporatized yet.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person’s voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.