Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

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

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.

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

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

Music really is our daily medicine.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

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

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.

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

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do.""Is it? Even if you're a monster?

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote Whatever it is that you’re afraid of, go after it.

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.