Elvis Duran

“I happen to know personally that Donald Trump does not have a problem with gay people.”

“Radio in my beginning days was going into a room for four hours, playing a bunch of music, and screaming about the artists... radio now has come out of the radio, on to the net, and on to video and on stages; it's a multiplatform thing. It's nothing I expected ever to see.”

“Sometimes fame overshadows an artist's music, and we forget just how incredibly talented these people truly are.”

“My voice was awkward. I had a deep Texan accent.”

“The magic to our show and, I think, any successful show, be it on the radio or TV, is every person being true to themselves.”

“I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I'm not a glamorous person at all, not at all.”

“I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.”

“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.”

“I was sort of a loner as a kid, so radio was where I turned for companionship. I loved the music and how the DJs talked about the artists and used words to paint pictures to evoke emotion.”

“To meet an artist when they first start out is like having a seat on the 50-yard line and watching them get a touchdown... The Weeknd, Pink, Harry Styles, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan, Kesha - these are all artists I interviewed back before anyone knew who they were. To watch them turn into these superstars is just amazing.”

“At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.”

“Social media has given us the world at our fingertips every morning. And we watch it change, live. In the morning, in the old days, we'd read the 'Post,' and that was what we had.”

“I never graduated from college. While I was in a mass communication class at North Texas State University, I was on the air weekends in Dallas and knew more about major-market radio than the guy teaching. When I told him that, he failed me.”

“I just always assume no one is listening.”

“If you're born and raised a New Yorker, you're probably pretty to-the-point, and you don't care so much about hurting people's feelings as you do about saying what's on your mind, because you assume they'll get over it.”

“I've never been truly closeted on the air; it's just something I never really made a big deal out of because I never felt like I wanted to push an agenda or push it any further than I felt comfortable with.”

“I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good.”

“I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.”

“If an artist is going through a lot of bad publicity, I don't want to ask them about that. If they want to talk about it, I'll make them comfortable enough where they can bring that up on their own. Not only do I want them to feel comfortable, I want them to come back.”

“I'd love to write a book and dabble in TV a little more - but only if it's right. I'm not going to go out there and beg anyone for a job.”