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

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.

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.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

Music really is our daily medicine.

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

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