Biography

"When I quit drinking, I learned that life was not about manipulation. It's more about letting go of the need to control things".

I can imagine myself sitting on that bench and thinking, Boy, this will be called child molestation twenty years from now.

My only compass for whether I've gone too far is the reaction I get from people in wheelchairs, or with hooks for hands. Like me, they are fed up with people who presume to speak for the disabled. All the pity and the patronizing. That's what is truly detestable.

One day, I was alone and had been drinking. I was frustrated after spending an hour trying to open the bottle with my teeth. Half-drunk, I ended up dropping the bottle. I got increasingly worked up, and eventually broke down.

I have to [create]. It's like breathing. I always have to be creating something or I don't feel quite right.