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.

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.

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.

I don't remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.

Books fall open, you fall in.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.