On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.