Terry gross

I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that...

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me...

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

I'm not the betting kind.