"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on"

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

"I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life"

"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"

"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market"

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"