I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.