I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.

I remember putting together mix tapes for my own imaginary radio station - WJAM - when I was a child,

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.