Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself..

What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap….

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio..

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do..

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio..

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your l….

I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong..

I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day..

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up..

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or ….

I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years w….

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself..

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that..

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture..

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement..

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be..

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting..

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky..

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say..

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college..