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

My first language is Gaelic.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

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.

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 could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.