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Ep 12012-05-09
Bono on His Dad's Final Days
"I'd go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my …
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Ep 22012-07-13
Surfer Kelly Slater on Problems in his Perfect Life
"My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because …
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Ep 32012-09-17
Muhammad Ali On Going To Mars
It was the summer of 1966 when a persistent 17-year-old with a high school radio …
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Ep 42013-01-10
Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz
"If I told you all the stories about what happened to people if they were …
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Ep 52013-03-19
Larry King on Getting Seduced
"I'm playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: 'WAHR'. And this …
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Ep 62013-04-02
Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful
"What's wrong with being fat? That's what I want to know." - Jim Morrison Interview …
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Ep 72013-04-17
David Foster Wallace on Ambition
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything." - David Foster …
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Ep 82013-04-30
Beastie Boys on Being Stupid
"There's a way we talk and it includes profanity. We never figured we'd be arrested …
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Ep 92013-05-14
Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales
"I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different." - …
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Ep 102013-05-28
James Brown on Conviction, Respect & Reagan
"Black is not a color; it's an attitude. It's the attitude of independence, respect and …
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Ep 112013-06-10
Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid
"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm …
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Ep 122013-06-25
Louis Armstrong on His Chops
"You've got to be good or as bad as the devil. ... Even if we …
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Ep 132013-07-09
Farrah Fawcett on Stiletto Power
"I've got on these stiletto heels aimed for his face." - Farrah Fawcett Interview by …
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Ep 142013-07-23
Fidel Castro: The Lost Interview
"If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell …
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Ep 152013-09-23
Janis Joplin on Rejection
"In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly." - Janis …
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Ep 162013-10-08
Ray Charles on Singing True
"If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like …
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Ep 172013-10-22
Kurt Cobain on Identity
"I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to …
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Ep 182013-11-05
Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests
"When we fell in with the Acid Tests we a started having the most fun …
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Ep 192013-11-19
Grace Kelly on JFK
"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you're wearing?' And I …
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Ep 202013-12-03
Tupac Shakur on Life and Death
"If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a …
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Ep 212013-12-17
John Updike on Family Affairs
"There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to …
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Ep 222014-01-07
Barry White on Making Love
"When a man is making love, the last thing he thinks about is war" - …
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Ep 232014-01-21
Carol Burnett on Finding Home
"When I looked in his eyes, he was there. He was home... I had a …
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Ep 242014-02-18
Stan Getz on Wasted Years
"I've done some dastardly things, but what can I do except make amends and apologize?" …
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Ep 252014-03-04
Heath Ledger on Role Playing
"My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into" - Heath …
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Ep 262014-04-08
Johnny Cash on The Gospel
"I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on" - Johnny Cash, …
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Ep 272014-04-22
John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love
"It's all true, folks: all you need is love." - John Lennon, 1969 Interviews by …
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Ep 282014-05-06
Gene Wilder on The Truth
"On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was …
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Ep 292014-05-20
David Bowie on Stardust
"I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star. I always felt …
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Ep 302014-06-03
Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness
"Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live" - Philip Seymour Hoffman Conversation …
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Ep 312014-06-24
Meryl Streep on Beauty
"It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my …
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Ep 322014-08-26
Jimi Hendrix on The Experience
"When things get too heavy just call me helium--the lightest known gas to man." - …
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Ep 332014-09-16
Michael Jackson on Godliness
"My singing… i'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly." - Michael Jackson …
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Ep 342014-09-30
Bette Davis on The Sexes
"I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little …
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Ep 352014-10-14
Liberace on Peacocking
"Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and …
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Ep 362014-10-28
Maya Angelou on Con Men
"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. …
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Ep 372014-11-11
Wayne Coyne on Living With Death
"I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same …
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Ep 382014-12-02
Robin Williams on Masks
"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh. To make us realize …
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Ep 392014-12-16
Tom Robbins on Jitterbugs
"If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn't write it." - …
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Ep 402015-01-20
Elliott Smith on Freaks
"A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and …
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Ep 412015-02-03
B.B. King on The Blues
"I don't like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I …
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Ep 422015-02-17
Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo
"I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope …
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Ep 432015-04-14
Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty
"Mama just always said, 'you be what you are and you don't have to worry …
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Ep 442015-04-28
Ray Bradbury on Madmen
"Nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a …
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Ep 452015-05-12
John Coltrane on Giant Steps
"I want to be the force which is truly for good." - John Coltrane in …
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Ep 462015-05-26
Joni Mitchell on Illusions
"I didn’t like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. …
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Ep 472015-06-09
Ayn Rand on Love and Happiness
" I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions." - Ayn Rand on …
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Ep 482015-06-23
Roger Ebert on Ego
"I have innate confidence that I am right. Partially out of conviction and partially as …
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Ep 492015-07-14
Dustin Hoffman in 1971 on Duplicity and Famosity
"I did as much as I could do at that time in my life ... …
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Ep 502015-07-28
Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws
“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. …
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Ep 512015-09-29
Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing
"I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is" - Tom Waits in 1988. Tom Waits …
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Ep 522015-10-13
Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt
"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982 …
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Ep 532015-10-27
Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious
"I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay …
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Ep 542015-11-10
Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys
"Nothing means anything" - Kurt Vonnegut on November 8, 1970
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Ep 552015-12-01
Nina Simone on Shock
"I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a …
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Ep 562015-12-15
Garrison Keillor on Humor
“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There …
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Ep 572016-02-02
Sally Ride on Dumb Questions
“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would …
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Ep 582016-02-16
Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance
“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” …
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Ep 592016-03-01
Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine
""Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function."" - …
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Ep 602016-03-11
Jane Goodall on Instinct
"Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about …
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Ep 612016-03-15
Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code
"I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if …
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Ep 622016-03-22
Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life
"I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can …
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Ep 632016-03-25
Richard Feynman on What It Means
"The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what …
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Ep 642016-03-29
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
"A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong" …
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Ep 652016-04-12
Martin Scorsese on Framing
"Sometimes when it all comes together ... you become the film you’re making." - Martin …
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Ep 662016-04-26
Patti Smith in 1976 on Getting Bleeped
“When people say fuckin‘ shit, they don‘t think of a big turd, or two people …
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Ep 672016-05-10
Cher on Kitsch
“I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them.“ - Cher in 1999, …
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Ep 682016-05-24
Rod Serling on Kamikazes
”The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they …
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Ep 692016-06-07
Frank Zappa on Fads
"I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we …
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Ep 702016-06-28
Bob Dylan at 20 on Freak Shows
“I'm never going to become rich and famous” - Bob Dylan in 1962. This interview …
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Ep 712016-07-12
Nora Ephron on Crazy Salad
"It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time.” - Nora …
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Ep 722016-07-26
Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols
"I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used …
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Ep 732016-09-13
Aldous Huxley on Technodictators
"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of …
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Ep 742016-09-27
Stevie Wonder on Keys of Life
"If God didn't want me to sing it, he wouldn't have given me the talent …
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Ep 752016-10-11
Ronald Reagan on Oatmeal Meat
“How did I get over being poor? I got a job as a sports announcer …
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Ep 762016-11-01
Jimmy Carter on Power and God
“Although I have prayed a good bit, and do, I've never asked God to let …
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Ep 772016-11-15
Leonard Cohen on Moonlight
“I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless …
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Ep 782016-11-29
Francis Ford Coppola on Solitude
”Death is on the back of everyone’s minds whether they want to admit it or …
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Ep 792016-12-13
Stephen King on Childhood
“We think in a different way as children. We tend to think around corners instead …
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Ep 802017-01-24
Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas
”I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” This interview was recorded on July …