"I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

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

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

"I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening"

"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"

"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music"

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio"

"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing"