My dad did a radio show. I was on it when I was seven. So now you know that the showbiz bug bit me really early.
Not many things bug me, but if there's one thing that does, it's the idea that my story is a football fairytale.
I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.
When you've got that performing bug, there's no way that you can tear it out. It's there. When you go out on stage, and that first wave of applause comes, you just go, 'Wow.'
You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'
I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.
I've got royal blood coursing through my veins and if the boxing bug is 'something I've inherited through the family bloodline, I'm proud of my genes.
