Quotes By Enya

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

Fame and success are very different things.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.

My first language is Gaelic.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

The Druids held the trees as very sacred.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

I use my voice as an instrument.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.