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I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

I have selective hearing.

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

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.