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.

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 have had death threats from people with fixations.

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

You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is

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.