“My father told me abuse is generational.” — Glenn Beck

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.