Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

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

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.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

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

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.

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