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.

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 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.

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

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.

The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts.

I fall short of her standards. She made me buy cat food that hasn't been tested on animals. My cats took one bite of it, spit it out, and yelled, "Did no one test this?

I had become Harry Potter. Except I was thirteen and not magic, and my destiny, whatever it was, held no profound purpose.

I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

Don't depend too much on anyone.

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.