Quotes About Ira Glass

My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.

I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn't need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn't think of it as anything else but fun.

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.