My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. In those 20 years, I did not know the meaning of the word hope. It was just a bleak, difficult existence. With all the gifts, with all the successes that I had, it was still an incredibly bleak way of living and I want to be a messenger of hope.

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

Exercise is an incredible key to feeling well.