May 9, 2012 • 6m
"I'd go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my nerves. Then I'd go to the hospital and I'd sleep beside my ...Read more
July 13, 2012 • 6m
"My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because I've accomplished all the things I wanted ...Read more
September 17, 2012 • 6m
It was the summer of 1966 when a persistent 17-year-old with a high school radio show near Chicago got the interview of lifetime: ...Read more
January 10, 2013 • 6m
"If I told you all the stories about what happened to people if they were caught listening to jazz." - Dave Brubeck in 2008 Inter...Read more
March 19, 2013 • 6m
"I'm playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: 'WAHR'. And this lady's voice--I can still hear her voice--she goes:...Read more
April 2, 2013 • 6m
"What's wrong with being fat? That's what I want to know." - Jim Morrison Interview by Howard Smith TheSmithTapes.com / Villagevo...Read more
April 17, 2013 • 6m
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything." - David Foster Wallace Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC ...Read more
April 30, 2013 • 6m
"There's a way we talk and it includes profanity. We never figured we'd be arrested for it." - Mike "Mike D" Diamond Interview by...Read more
May 14, 2013 • 6m
"I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different." - Wilt Chamberlain Original interview aired in 1992 on ...Read more
May 28, 2013 • 6m
"Black is not a color; it's an attitude. It's the attitude of independence, respect and dignity." - James Brown Interview by Rocc...Read more
June 10, 2013 • 6m
"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm still frightened... Nothing changes." - Maurice Sendak Inter...Read more
June 25, 2013 • 6m
"You've got to be good or as bad as the devil. ... Even if we had two, three days off I still had to blow that horn a few hours to...Read more
July 9, 2013 • 6m
"I've got on these stiletto heels aimed for his face." - Farrah Fawcett Interview by Lawrence Grobel 1994, Hollywood
July 23, 2013 • 6m
"If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself." - Fidel Castro Clark Hewitt Galloway interview...Read more
September 23, 2013 • 6m
"In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly." - Janis Joplin Howard Smith interviewed Janis Joplin by ...Read more
October 8, 2013 • 6m
"If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine." - Ray Charles. Joe Smith inter...Read more
October 22, 2013 • 6m
"I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem." - Kurt Cobain Interview by Jon Savage July 2...Read more
November 5, 2013 • 6m
"When we fell in with the Acid Tests we a started having the most fun we had ever had." - Jerry Garcia Interview by Joe Smith May...Read more
November 19, 2013 • 6m
"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you're wearing?' And I said, 'why how clever of you, Mr. President. Howev...Read more
December 3, 2013 • 6m
"If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur Interview by...Read more
December 17, 2013 • 6m
"There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say" - John Updike Interview by John Freeman Spring...Read more
January 7, 2014 • 6m
"When a man is making love, the last thing he thinks about is war" - Barry White Interview by Joe Smith April 3, 1987, Los Angeles Tape recorder
January 21, 2014 • 6m
"When I looked in his eyes, he was there. He was home... I had a dad." - Carol Burnett Interview by Leonard Lopate August 19, 200...Read more
February 18, 2014 • 6m
"I've done some dastardly things, but what can I do except make amends and apologize?" - Stan Getz Interview by Joe Smith August ...Read more
March 4, 2014 • 6m
"My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into" - Heath Ledger Interview by Christine Spines Fall 2005, Cas...Read more
April 8, 2014 • 6m
"I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on" - Johnny Cash, 1996 Interview by Barney Hoskyns
April 22, 2014 • 6m
"It's all true, folks: all you need is love." - John Lennon, 1969 Interviews by Howard Smith
May 6, 2014 • 6m
"On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free." - Gene Wilder, March 2007 Conversation with Ms. magazine...Read more
May 20, 2014 • 6m
"I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star. I always felt a little bit out of my element" - David Bowie Interview by Joe Smith
June 3, 2014 • 6m
"Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live" - Philip Seymour Hoffman Conversation with Simon Critchley recorded live ...Read more
June 24, 2014 • 6m
"It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug" - Meryl Streep Interview by Christine Spines, 2008
August 26, 2014 • 6m
"When things get too heavy just call me helium--the lightest known gas to man." - Jimi Hendrix in his final interview
September 16, 2014 • 6m
"My singing… i'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly." - Michael Jackson in January 1980
September 30, 2014 • 6m
"I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman." - Bette Davis in 1963
October 14, 2014 • 6m
"Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it" - Liberace in 1968 as tol...Read more
October 28, 2014 • 6m
"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up." - Maya Angelou, as told to...Read more
November 11, 2014 • 6m
"I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time." - Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips in 2002
December 2, 2014 • 6m
"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh. To make us realize we still are part animal.... So you don't take yoursel...Read more
December 16, 2014 • 6m
"If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn't write it." - Tom Robbins in 1994, as told to Tod Mesirow
January 20, 2015 • 6m
"A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not." - Elliott Smith in 1998, as told to Barney Hoskyns
February 3, 2015 • 6m
"I don't like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch." - B.B. King on September 5, 1986,...Read more
February 17, 2015 • 6m
"I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something" - Lou Reed on March 20, 1987, as told to Joe Smith
April 14, 2015 • 6m
"Mama just always said, 'you be what you are and you don't have to worry about nothing'" - Dolly Parton as told to Lawrence Grobel on March 13, 1978
April 28, 2015 • 6m
"Nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself" - Ray Bradbury as told to tw...Read more
May 12, 2015 • 6m
"I want to be the force which is truly for good." - John Coltrane in 1966, as told Frank Kofsky
May 26, 2015 • 6m
"I didn’t like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me." - Joni Mitchell in 1986, as told to Joe Smith
June 9, 2015 • 6m
" I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions." - Ayn Rand on February 25, 1959, as told to Mike Wallace
June 23, 2015 • 6m
"I have innate confidence that I am right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose." - Roger Ebert in 1990
July 14, 2015 • 6m
"I did as much as I could do at that time in my life ... I tried as hard as I could and I couldn't do better" - Dustin Hoffman in 1971
July 28, 2015 • 6m
“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson in 1967
September 29, 2015 • 6m
"I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is" - Tom Waits in 1988. Tom Waits had just released the concert film, Big Time, when he was in...Read more
October 13, 2015 • 6m
"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982 in the first interview she gave after getting out of prison
October 27, 2015 • 6m
"I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do" - Bill Murray in October 1988
November 10, 2015 • 6m
"Nothing means anything" - Kurt Vonnegut on November 8, 1970
December 1, 2015 • 6m
"I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed." - Nina Simone in July, 1968
December 15, 2015 • 6m
“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction....Read more
February 2, 2016 • 6m
“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” - Sally Ride in 1983. Interviewe...Read more
February 16, 2016 • 6m
“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” - Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wal...Read more
March 1, 2016 • 6m
""Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function."" - Temple Grandin in 2008, from an oral history at...Read more
March 11, 2016 • 6m
"Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan" - Jane Goo...Read more
March 15, 2016 • 6m
"I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last" - Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2010 from an...Read more
March 22, 2016 • 6m
"I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper." - Buckminster Fuller in 1965, as told...Read more
March 25, 2016 • 6m
"The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything." ...Read more
March 29, 2016 • 6m
"A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Ter...Read more
April 12, 2016 • 6m
"Sometimes when it all comes together ... you become the film you’re making." - Martin Scorsese in 1990, as told to T.J. English. ...Read more
April 26, 2016 • 6m
“When people say fuckin‘ shit, they don‘t think of a big turd, or two people makin‘ it anymore” - Patti Smith in May 1976, as told...Read more
May 10, 2016 • 6m
“I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them.“ - Cher in 1999, as told to Benjamin Svetkey. On a spring after...Read more
May 24, 2016 • 6m
”The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they fly” - Rod Serling in 1963. The ...Read more
June 7, 2016 • 6m
"I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we do" - Frank Zappa on June 6, 1971, as told to Howard Smit...Read more
June 28, 2016 • 6m
“I'm never going to become rich and famous” - Bob Dylan in 1962. This interview originally aired on WBAI FM in New York City in F...Read more
July 12, 2016 • 6m
"It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time.” - Nora Ephron. This interview by Studs Terkel with Nora Ephron was re...Read more
July 26, 2016 • 6m
"I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used and the body was used but in life, I have never done that...Read more
September 13, 2016 • 6m
"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" - Aldous Huxley. In this remarkable i...Read more
September 27, 2016 • 6m
"If God didn't want me to sing it, he wouldn't have given me the talent to do it“ - Stevie Wonder in 2005. Barney Hoskyns recorde...Read more
October 11, 2016 • 6m
“How did I get over being poor? I got a job as a sports announcer and it led to everything else.“ - Ronald Reagan. Interview by ...Read more
November 1, 2016 • 6m
“Although I have prayed a good bit, and do, I've never asked God to let me be President.“ This conversation was recorded on May 6...Read more
November 15, 2016 • 6m
“I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless I have something to say“ This interview b...Read more
November 29, 2016 • 6m
”Death is on the back of everyone’s minds whether they want to admit it or not.” This interview was recorded on July 28, 1996 wh...Read more
December 13, 2016 • 6m
“We think in a different way as children. We tend to think around corners instead of in straight lines.“ Conversation recorded o...Read more
January 24, 2017 • 6m
”I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” This interview was recorded on July 28, 1996 for the Cover-to-Cover radio ...Read more