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 told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

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

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

The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing.