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

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.

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.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Invest your evaporating life and reap greatness.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up!

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.