I came into reality television with MTV's show 'The Real World,' specifically the 1994 season set in San Francisco. I was glued to the Puck and Pedro drama.

Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.