As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.