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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life.

Make prayer a top priority rather than a last resort.

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.