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People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.

I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.