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

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.

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.

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Magic is a science.Miracle is the work.Mind is a laboratory.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.