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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.

I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of white fandom in context of black athletes who are also both very rich and slightly angry is just, to me, bottomlessly fascinating.

I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.

I really liked the Seattle movement.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.