“I‘m a coward, I didn’t want to die” – Patty Hearst in 1982, as told to Larry Grobel. Larry Grobel told us the story about a time back in the early 80s when he borrowed a swimsuit at the Playboy mansion. It seems that back then,

  “I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is” – Tom Waits in 1988 as told to Chris Roberts Imagine what would happen if you sat down on a couch next to Tom Waits? Here’s the tape. Watch the animated version of this episode from our series with PBS Digital St...

“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson in 1967 from the Studs Terkel Radio Archives.

The lost interview recorded in 1971 from the Pacifica Radio Archives

"I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions." - Ayn Rand in 1959, as told to Mike Wallace.

""I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people." - Joni Mitchell

""Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan" - Jane Goodall, as told to Ira Flatow in 2002

"I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper." - Buckminster Fuller, as told to Studs Terkel in interviews recorded in 1965 and 1970

"I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something" - Lou Reed, as told to Joe Smith in 1987

"I don't like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch." - B.B. King - As told to Joe Smith in September 1986.