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American Sign Language requires a lot of facial and body expression.

I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

I can see that 'Switched at Birth' is attracting audiences because of the diversity and the American Sign Language as well. American Sign Language is such a beautiful language, and people want more of that.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

The more people that learn sign language, the better. This is part of my life, but it's not part of everybody's life, so it's nice to expose this to the world.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.