The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

I started doing radio at KMPX, the first of the underground rock 'n' roll stations.

Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell.

You used to have to come to America for 18 months and drive around in a van, trying to get radio stations to play your song. But I remember One Direction's manager telling me that the first time they came to America, they hadn't released a song - they'd only been on 'The X Factor.' But there were 2,000 fans waiting at LAX airport.