I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.
“And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.”