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.

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.

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.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

There is no great companion like a book.

I wish the Irish had never invented whiskey, " Pat said. Mr. O'Malley smirked, "The Irish didn't invent it. God did. It was his way of keepin' the Irish from takin' over the world.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential, ' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

I don't want to speak to two empty chairs.