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 think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

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

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

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

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

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.