Music Really Is Our Daily Medicine.

And As I Grew Older, I Then Auditioned For The Royal Academy Of Music In London, And They Said, Well, No, We Won't Accept You, Because We Haven't A Clue - You Know - Of The Future Of A So-called 'deaf' Musician. And I Just Couldn't Quite Accept That.

Hearing Is A Form Of Touch. I Could Hear Less Through The Ears But More Through The Body.

Before My Teen Years, I Was Losing My Hearing Pretty Quickly, And I Was Getting Very, Very Angry. I Was Beginning To Become An Angry Person Because Of That.

I Love Out-of-the-way, Rugged Places. For Me, Holidays Are About The Experiences, And The People, And The Memories, Rather Than Sitting On A Nice Beach Getting Tanned. I Try To Plant Myself Where I Am And Embrace What Is There In Front Of Me.

If We See Someone In A Wheelchair, We Assume They Cannot Walk. It May Be That They Can Walk Three, Four, Five Steps. That, To Them, Means They Can Walk.