Feed the soul, starve the ego.
Adam Goldstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
(on the plane crash) I saw Travis running and flailing, trying to put out fire on his body. He screamed, ‘What do I do?’ and I said, ‘Roll!’ He did, but the fire didn’t go out. He tried to rip his clothes off. I finally put the flames out by smothering him with my body. Some of my burns are from that. His sock was on fire – I burned my fingers taking it off.
Adam Goldstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
They shaved my head and took layers of skin from my scalp. To heal the wounds, I was in a hyperbaric chamber for 90 minutes twice daily for four days. It’s claustrophobic. One of my first nights home, I watched ‘Iron Man’ with friends. In the scene where Robert Downey Jr. comes out of the cave with a blowtorch, my whole body cringed. That night, I had a nightmare someone spilled fuel on me and was trying to light me on fire. I woke up and thought, ‘Oh my God, this is going to happen forever?’
Adam Goldstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
I hadn't heard his remixes and didn't know how amazing a drummer Travis is. But we got together, I threw on James Brown's 'Funky Drummer,' one of the most sampled beats in hip-hop, and 'I Know You Got Soul' by Bobby Byrd. His face would just open up; he would match the beat perfectly. I thought, 'Damn, this is fun.' It's like a skeleton you get to put the clothes on. And once the clothes are on, you yank out the spine.
Adam Goldstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
I have really bad days and I have really OK days. It's strange. I'm blessed. I'm alive. I'm here.
Adam Goldstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
There’s no reason why I should have lived or why I lived and they didn’t. And it’s something I struggle with every day.
Adam Goldstein, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Nationalities: United States
Languages: English
Years active: 1993–2009
Education: Friends' Central School