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I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

Different strokes, for different folks.

A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

You can stroke people with words.

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.

So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the brain getting cut off, depriving it of oxygen and killing off the part fed by the clogged artery.

Each day in practice, I try go perfect. I try to be perfect every turn, every stroke. That's the way I feel comfortable.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.