I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

The advice is, go slow and take your time with it. That works to my benefit.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together

My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.