Musician Quotes

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

Every musical scene has a cycle.

My first language is Gaelic.

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

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

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.

I use my voice as an instrument.

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.

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

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

I don't need a man in my life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fame and success are very different things.

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

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

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

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

I can only be who I am.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

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

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 bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.