You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.
Aoife O'DonovanIt's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
Aoife O'DonovanMy 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.
Aoife O'DonovanThe 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.
Aoife O'DonovanPerforming alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah! we're so locked in." Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, "Oops." If you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a completely different way.
Aoife O'Donovan