Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

Music really is our daily medicine.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing next to her.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.