I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.