“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.” — Serge Gainsbourg Quote

“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.”

“I've succeeded at everything except my life.”

“It wasn't until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to change. The process was a sort of therapy for me, which Jennifer coined as 'photo therapy.' I grew to see the beauty and strength in myself and my journey through the lens of her camera.”

“I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty.”