I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
Radio is immediate.
I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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.
Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.
I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.