When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.

I’m very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I’m glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

I design therefore I become.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.