One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.