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Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.