I want a dress the color of suffering
I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.
When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.
There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.
Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.
The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there are in the room - the more openness there can be. These songs share that as well, in addition to just the obvious, basic starkness.