When I Was 12, I Happened To

The Thing About Playing Percussion Is That You Can Create All These Emotions That Can Be Sometimes Beautiful, Sometimes Really Ugly, Or Sometimes Sweet, Sometimes As Big As King Kong And So On. And So There Can Be A Real Riot Out There, Or It Can Be So Refined.

I've Kept A Diary Since I Was 11.

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.

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.