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

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

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

I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Music really is our daily medicine.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.