But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.