The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.
With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play.
Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.
As a comic, you learn to use your voice because you don't have the benefit of visual things.
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
