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I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.

I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

French was my first language.

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.