In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

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.

I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

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.