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If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

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.

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

It's hard to find vehicles for your music.

Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.