Quotes from Nina Blackwood

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.