It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible.

It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

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

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

I like excess. And giant M&M's.

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.