I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

Almost instantly [after my announcement of Parkinson's], I saw the first couple of days the coverage was about, you know, "Fox's Parkinson's, blah, blah, blah." Then, two days after that, I saw the coverage turn. It started to become, "Can young people get Parkinson's?" All of a sudden, the conversation turned to become about that. And that was one of the first eye-opening things.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

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

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.