"My life, as you will discover, has been rocky, on-the-edge and unconventional. It has been scary, disrupted and a distant remove from what most people still cling to as 'security.'
"It has also been creative, exhilarating, passion-filled, vibrant, exciting, adventurous and enriching. It has pushed me beyond the boundaries of what I believe and what I believe I want, and it has propelled me beyond the frontiers of the conventionally possible.
"In every moment, it steers me on a course that I could never consciously chart for myself. In every breath, it reminds me that the story knows best – the story I'm living as much as the story I'm writing."