Enya Quotes

My first language is Gaelic.

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

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

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 use my voice as an instrument.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

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

I don't need a man in my life.

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

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

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

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

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

Fame and success are very different things.

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

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

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

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

I can only be who I am.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

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

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.