Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

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.

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.

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.