There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make you go, 'What's this?' You play C, but why is it that one day it leads to G and it didn't yesterday? I don't know. It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting.

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

I don't need a man in my life.

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.

Fame and success are very different things.

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