“As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.”

“I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.”