When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

- Aoife O'Donovan

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

- Aoife O'Donovan

Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah!…

- Aoife O'Donovan

It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this b…

- Aoife O'Donovan

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in…

- Aoife O'Donovan

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.

- Aoife O'Donovan

I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

- Aoife O'Donovan

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

- Aoife O'Donovan

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

- Aoife O'Donovan