“In a way, I’m in as weird a place as Charlie Sheen. He doesn’t care at all and I care too much. Where’s the middle ground?”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Charlie Sheen, caring, Middle Ground
“I never thought I’d want to be married again. I thought that dating a bunch of different women would be the way to go. Be like a bee and pollinate every flower, and who cares whose feelings get hurt. This is my time, and I’m gonna grab the spoils like Genghis Khan.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Marriage, Genghis Khan, Dating
“Sex addiction, people addiction, it’s the same thing. You’re really afraid to be on your own. Listen, how much sex do you really think you need when it comes down to it? It’s not about the sex. After my divorce, I realized, 'Oh, wow, I can go have sex.' And I was running around, picking up women. Th…”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Addiction, Sex Addiction, Panic, Loneliness
“That’s what an addiction to people is: attention, acclaim, validation. I think all of that is operating there. It’s desperate.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Addiction, Attention, Acclaim, Validation, Desperate
“It was really a very scary thing to me. I had never really opened up to someone. I never had conversations like that with another human being, let alone a man. And I never in a serious way thought about how I felt about anything. I was completely closed off from my feelings… I remember I started tel…”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: therapy, scary, radio
“I enjoy doing the radio show every day. But the neurotic attention I devote to it and the inability to get rid of that insecurity is very fatiguing for me.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Radio Show, neurotic, Fatigue, Insecurity
“If you look up the neighborhood I grew up in, it’s horrendous. It’s such a bad neighborhood, and it was so disturbing to be one of the few white families left in the community. And my parents never came to me and discussed it.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Segregation, White Flight, Bad Neighborhoods
“You see, my father was very emotionally cut off from me. He worked long hours, got home at about 7:00 and left early in the morning. I don’t ever remember my father in my entire childhood saying, 'How are you feeling?' or 'How are you doing?' My father had no interest.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Emotional Distance, Ben Stern, Childhood
“My mother and I had many conversations, but most of them were about her, her upbringing, her development and how I could please her. And my sister is great, but we were never emotionally close. So I think that a lot of my inability to get close with people is based on all of that. I was always an ou…”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: mother, Distance, Development, Outsider
“Talking on the radio is a performance. Even though it’s pretty raw, what I do, and I do open up, it’s still a performance.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: radio, talking, Performance, Raw
“The ability to interview people and read your subject comes from my mother being very demanding of me with one thing: that I should be able to read her mood and know what she wanted. I could look in my mother’s eyes and know everything. When she was sad, when she was angry, what she was thinking. I…”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Interviewing, Mood, mother
“In my real life, I have a hard time having a conversation with anybody.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Conversations
“I used to do impressions of all the mothers in the neighborhood. I’d get them rolling with laughter. But sometimes – and this is a terrible thing to do to a kid – my father would literally say, 'Stop! You’re going on too long. Shorten it up! Make it interesting!' In order to get my own parents’ atte…”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: Impressions, comedy, Paranoid
“The biggest criticism of my interviews is that I cut people off. I think my biggest asset is that I cut people off. It sounds like a contradiction, but the fact is you can’t allow people to drone on. You are the orchestra leader. You are the one who is saying, 'My audience wants something new. I got…”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.comTagged: interviews, Interrupting, audience, Contradiction