Quote

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

I have times when I doubt what I'm doing. When those moments hit, I think about how grateful I am to be able to do what I do every day. It was harder when I started because I didn't see the response, but now I'm out there playing for people and seeing them happy, which makes it all worthwhile.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.