A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.

When you're hearing somebody and you're not seeing them, your brain naturally creates a version of them. Then you feel closer to them because you've created them.

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point.

People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.

With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

There are two main predictions for the future

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

I've been a lucky boy.

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

You're only as smart as your ERA.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

Every great love starts with a great story.