Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

San Diego is the best city in the world.

We weren't very good. A lot of that has to do with San Diego State. You have to give those guys a lot of credit.

I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could.