My First Language Is Gaelic.

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 Enjoyed The Two Years I Was With Clannad. I Enjoyed Touring. We Toured A Lot In Europe.

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.

The Spring, Summer, Is Quite A Hectic Time For People In Their Lives, But Then It Comes To Autumn, And To Winter, And You Can't But Help Think Back To The Year That Was, And Then Hopefully Looking Forward To The Year That Is Approaching.

There Is No Formula To It Because Writing Every Song, For Me, Is A Little Journey. The First Note Has To Lift You And Make You Go, 'what's This?' You Play C, But Why Is It That One Day It Leads To G And It Didn't Yesterday? I Don't Know. It's Everything. It's The Walk You Take In The Morning, It's The Night Before, The Meeting With People, Landscapes, The Chats, All Of That Evolves In Some Way Into Melody, But I'm Not Sure How It's Going To Happen. I'm Dealing With The Unknown All The Time And That Is Exciting.