Top 35 Enya Quotes

The fans are very, very loyal. They’re always saying, ‘When is the next album?’ They know when I finish in the studio it’s got to be a few years before the next album.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It’s a time I enjoy. And it’s very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

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

I don’t have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don’t do my own shopping; it’s a security thing.

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

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

The Druids held the trees as very sacred.

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.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

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.

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.

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

I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

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.

The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.

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

I can only be who I am.

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

I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.

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

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 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.

I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it’s not their cup of tea, it’s not their kind of album, that’s fine by me.

I don’t need a man in my life.

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

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

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

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

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.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.