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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

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.

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

I don't need a man in my life.

You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

I use my voice as an instrument.

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

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

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 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.

Place a name upon the night
One to set your heart alight
And to make the darkness bright
Paint the sky with stars.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

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

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

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

Fame and success are very different things.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

I can only be who I am.

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

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

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

Long, long journey through the darkness
Long, long way to go
But what are miles across the ocean
To the heart that's coming home?

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

The Druids held the trees as very sacred.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

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

My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.

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

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

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.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

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.

My first language is Gaelic.

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