Jeff Bauman

I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up.

Even in the ambulance ride I was trying to say something, trying to say, like, 'I knew who did it, I knew what went on.' And then I think they were kind of thrown back by that. They were like, 'What? You know what went on? You know what happened?' And I was like, 'Yeah, I saw the guy.'

I got myself into trouble. I was drinking and partying a lot and it caught up with me.

My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.

For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.

I was still conscious when I was being transported from the blast site to the hospital.

I don't like being called a hero.

I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing my face next to Jake Gyllenhaal's.

I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon bombing without my legs.

I'm scared. Seeing my life being told in a movie. That is nerve-wracking.

I took my hand off the pause button. I had my life on pause. You get stuck, especially when you're drinking and isolating. I started homing in on what I wanted to do as a person. Just try to grow up.

I just want people to know that I'm OK, and if I can get through something this traumatic, anybody can get through what's going on in their life.