The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

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'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.

My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.