Radio is about as much like charcoal as language itself is like a number 2 pencil...it ain't the tool you got, mate, but the work you do with the tool you got that counts. A good radio writer and performer can do a more vivid job on your head than multimedia MTV with quadraphonic sound.

It's not that it hits you with more stimulus -- it makes you create more by hitting you with less.

The greatest art is in what you leave out. Sensory overload is easier than ever, but for "better" you need to look back at the artists of understatement.

This is not a ocmmentary on country, allthough it's as true there as anywhere, but on the underestimation of print and radio as means to evoke and awaken, rather than simply steamroller and hypnotize, an audience.