I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

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.

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.

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.