I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.

Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.”“Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.