Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

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

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.

Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

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

A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.