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I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer - but I never thought about becoming a poster or anything like that. It's pretty cool.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.