If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

The advice is, go slow and take your time with it. That works to my benefit.

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.

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.

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. Obviously, because it is more salient, you know? We might like going to the movies, and of course we like music too, but when the eyes don't work then the ears pick up slack. Music is all the sweeter at that point.

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

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