Some of the highlights, from AllAccess.com:

3. As a Chicago native, you grew up able to hear a lot of radio legends, and later got to work with some (including a stint with the unique Don Vogel when he was at WMAQ). Who would you count as your radio influences?
My first really “wow” moment was hearing Steve Dahl for the first time in 1977. He was doing a solo morning show on WDAI. His use of voices and characters just blew my mind. It was the first time I realized that radio is really about the voices, not the music.

Professionally, Don Vogel was my biggest influence. Because he was blind, he was able to wrap his brain around radio, sound first. I know that’s what we’re supposed to do…but I think a lot of us forget that ethic. He could hear the smallest subtlety in voices which not only made him the greatest radio impressionist of all times but also allowed him to peer into a guest or caller’s soul.

5. What have been the highest and lowest points in your career thus far?
The break-up with Garry Meier would have to constitute both the high and the low. The Roe & Garry show was a critical and ratings success. After the break-up in 2004, a lot of people questioned whether I could survive without him. When the show rebounded to the top of the ratings in 2006, that was a pretty great moment.

10. What’s the best advice you’ve ever gotten? The worst?
The worst advice was “talk at the audience NOT to the audience.” Nobody likes to be talked at… just ask my wife.

The best advice anyone can ever get is “never give up.”