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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.

I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

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