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.

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

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.

I want to be very authentic when I perform, because I feel like I owe that to people listening. You can't go through the motions on music like this. You are making people feel a certain way, that you are not feeling yourself. It's like saying "I want you guys to cry, but I don't really care," which isn't right.

I was trained professionally to connect with people as a therapist. That's job number one, having a empathetic regard towards someone who is sitting right across from you. Being able to pull whatever their needs are, their desires and the things that are troubling them and being able to address that in some way.

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