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I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

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.

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.