I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.
Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
I can't play 'Madden' without an index finger!
If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.
By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
There is a lot of technology out there that can help people with hearing loss including wearable technology that vibrates.
Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.
I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
Florida sends me a handicap sticker when I'm there. It's embarrassing. But I can't walk more than six holes before the whole knee swells up, and then I can't go anymore.
I took my sight and mobility for granted.
I think I am different from most blind people because my agility is not that of a blind person - I don't shuffle my feet when I walk. In fact, I have no, as I call them, 'blindisms.'
It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.
Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.
The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.
I'm comfortable not using my vision.
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
