I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, "God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing" and me saying, "Me, too." That's our reality. We have no control over it.

I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.

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.

My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.