"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you"

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism"

"As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge"

"One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart"

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

"Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him"

"I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks"

"I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle"

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

"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area"

"Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake"