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.

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

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

I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

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

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?