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

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

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

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

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.