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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it.

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

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

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

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.

No matter how loud they shout injustice. Don't surrender to their absurdity.

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.