I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.