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Bono on His Dad's Final Days 6m "I'd go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my nerves. Then I'd…

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Surfer Kelly Slater on Problems in his Perfect Life 6m "My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because I've accomplished all…

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Muhammad Ali On Going To Mars 6m It was the summer of 1966 when a persistent 17-year-old with a high school radio show near Chicago…

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Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz 6m "If I told you all the stories about what happened to people if they were caught listening to…

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Larry King on Getting Seduced 6m "I'm playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: 'WAHR'. And this lady's voice--I can…

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Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful 6m "What's wrong with being fat? That's what I want to know." - Jim Morrison Interview by Howard Smith…

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David Foster Wallace on Ambition 6m "If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything." - David Foster Wallace Interview by…

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Beastie Boys on Being Stupid 6m "There's a way we talk and it includes profanity. We never figured we'd be arrested for it." -…

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Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales 6m "I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different." - Wilt Chamberlain Original…

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James Brown on Conviction, Respect & Reagan 6m "Black is not a color; it's an attitude. It's the attitude of independence, respect and dignity." - James…

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Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid 6m "I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm still frightened... Nothing…

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Louis Armstrong on His Chops 6m "You've got to be good or as bad as the devil. ... Even if we had two, three…

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Farrah Fawcett on Stiletto Power 6m "I've got on these stiletto heels aimed for his face." - Farrah Fawcett Interview by Lawrence Grobel 1994,…

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Fidel Castro: The Lost Interview 6m "If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself." - Fidel…

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Janis Joplin on Rejection 6m "In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly." - Janis Joplin Howard Smith…

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Ray Charles on Singing True 6m "If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine." -…

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Kurt Cobain on Identity 6m "I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem." -…

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Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests 6m "When we fell in with the Acid Tests we a started having the most fun we had ever…

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Grace Kelly on JFK 6m "He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you're wearing?' And I said, 'why how…

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Tupac Shakur on Life and Death 6m "If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in…

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John Updike on Family Affairs 6m "There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say" - John…

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Barry White on Making Love 6m "When a man is making love, the last thing he thinks about is war" - Barry White Interview…

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Carol Burnett on Finding Home 6m "When I looked in his eyes, he was there. He was home... I had a dad." - Carol…

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Stan Getz on Wasted Years 6m "I've done some dastardly things, but what can I do except make amends and apologize?" - Stan Getz…

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Heath Ledger on Role Playing 6m "My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into" - Heath Ledger Interview by…

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Johnny Cash on The Gospel 6m "I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on" - Johnny Cash, 1996 Interview by…

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love 6m "It's all true, folks: all you need is love." - John Lennon, 1969 Interviews by Howard Smith

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Gene Wilder on The Truth 6m "On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free." - Gene…

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David Bowie on Stardust 6m "I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star. I always felt a little bit…

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Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness 6m "Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live" - Philip Seymour Hoffman Conversation with Simon Critchley…

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Meryl Streep on Beauty 6m "It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug" - Meryl…

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Jimi Hendrix on The Experience 6m "When things get too heavy just call me helium--the lightest known gas to man." - Jimi Hendrix in…

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Michael Jackson on Godliness 6m "My singing… i'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly." - Michael Jackson in January 1980

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Bette Davis on The Sexes 6m "I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman." - Bette…

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Liberace on Peacocking 6m "Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about…

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Maya Angelou on Con Men 6m "The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy,…

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Wayne Coyne on Living With Death 6m "I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time." - Wayne…

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Robin Williams on Masks 6m "Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh. To make us realize we still are…

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Tom Robbins on Jitterbugs 6m "If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn't write it." - Tom Robbins in…

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Elliott Smith on Freaks 6m "A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the…

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B.B. King on The Blues 6m "I don't like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own…

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Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo 6m "I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something" -…

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Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty 6m "Mama just always said, 'you be what you are and you don't have to worry about nothing'" -…

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Ray Bradbury on Madmen 6m "Nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people…

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John Coltrane on Giant Steps 6m "I want to be the force which is truly for good." - John Coltrane in 1966, as told…

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Joni Mitchell on Illusions 6m "I didn’t like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me."…

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Ayn Rand on Love and Happiness 6m " I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions." - Ayn Rand on February 25, 1959,…

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Roger Ebert on Ego 6m "I have innate confidence that I am right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose." -…

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Dustin Hoffman in 1971 on Duplicity and Famosity 6m "I did as much as I could do at that time in my life ... I tried as…

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Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws 6m “I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson in 1967

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Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing 6m "I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is" - Tom Waits in 1988. Tom Waits had just released…

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Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt 6m "I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982 in the first…

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Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious 6m "I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do"…

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Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys 6m "Nothing means anything" - Kurt Vonnegut on November 8, 1970

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Nina Simone on Shock 6m "I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live,…

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Garrison Keillor on Humor 6m “My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price…

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Sally Ride on Dumb Questions 6m “I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a…

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Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance 6m “Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” - Frank Lloyd…

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Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine 6m ""Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function."" - Temple Grandin in…

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Jane Goodall on Instinct 6m "Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I…

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Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code 6m "I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be…

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Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life 6m "I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper." - Buckminster…

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Richard Feynman on What It Means 6m "The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because…

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Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials 6m "A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong" - Carl Sagan…

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Martin Scorsese on Framing 6m "Sometimes when it all comes together ... you become the film you’re making." - Martin Scorsese in 1990,…

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Patti Smith in 1976 on Getting Bleeped 6m “When people say fuckin‘ shit, they don‘t think of a big turd, or two people makin‘ it anymore”…

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Cher on Kitsch 6m “I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them.“ - Cher in 1999, as told to…

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Rod Serling on Kamikazes 6m ”The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they fly” - Rod…

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Frank Zappa on Fads 6m "I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we do" - Frank…

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Bob Dylan at 20 on Freak Shows 6m “I'm never going to become rich and famous” - Bob Dylan in 1962. This interview originally aired on…

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Nora Ephron on Crazy Salad 6m "It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time.” - Nora Ephron. This interview…

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Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols 6m "I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used and the body…

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Aldous Huxley on Technodictators 6m "If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" -…

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Stevie Wonder on Keys of Life 6m "If God didn't want me to sing it, he wouldn't have given me the talent to do it“…

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Ronald Reagan on Oatmeal Meat 6m “How did I get over being poor? I got a job as a sports announcer and it led…

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Jimmy Carter on Power and God 6m “Although I have prayed a good bit, and do, I've never asked God to let me be President.“…

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Leonard Cohen on Moonlight 6m “I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless I have something…

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Francis Ford Coppola on Solitude 6m ”Death is on the back of everyone’s minds whether they want to admit it or not.” This interview…

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Stephen King on Childhood 6m “We think in a different way as children. We tend to think around corners instead of in straight…

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Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas 6m ”I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” This interview was recorded on July 28, 1996 for…