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When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.