Music really is our daily medicine.

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.

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.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

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

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.