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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?'

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.