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There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

But reality television is here to stay.

Reality TV has taken over.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

I'm completely done with reality TV.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that's done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television.