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.

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.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.

I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

When you are following me on Twitter, you are literally following my life. I think that's pretty cool.

I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump.