Top 35 Elvis Duran Quotes

To be the Grand Marshal of the most recognized Halloween parade in the world is so much fun. People plan for months and months to design their costumes, and it is amazing. It is a true competition and amazing to watch everyone.

I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it.

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.

One thing that makes me optimistic is other media from the digital world coming at radio. MTV tried to kill the radio star back in the ’80s. And with all the digital services coming at us, people say it’s a thing of the past – it’s not.

Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.

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.

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

Traditional radio is not going to die; it’s going to evolve.

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.

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’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.

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.

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

I’ve always been very comfortable with me and the people I work with, and my family have always been very plugged into who I am with my personal life.

If I played golf, I’d be on the golf course every day, but I just can’t wear those dumb pants.

I think it’s a wonderful thing, turning 50. I think everyone should do it at least once.

I just always assume no one is listening.

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

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 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 miss being able to pig out sometimes.

I definitely don’t ever see a time I want to retire. Ever.

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

I love Justin Bieber. There are times where people only report negative things about him, but everyone forgets how incredibly talented he really is.

I love taking time with an interview. Time with an artist relaxes them; it makes them want to be there and answer all your questions.

I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.

I don’t think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events.

I have no deep desire to hit the pavement and audition for TV projects or raise money to produce a show.

I’m still me, no matter if I’m gay or straight or whatever.

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 have no desire to spend my off-hours listening to other shows. Unless it’s Howard Stern, of course.

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.

I had a little radio, and I listened to music in my bedroom when I was supposed to be sleeping. I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and I loved the DJs who would come on and talk about the artists and the songs they were singing, and they gave away prizes. I was like, ‘This is a cool job!’

Here at Z100, we’re kind of famous for breaking new artists and watching their careers bloom.