No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.