I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.