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" As with anything creative, change is inevitable. "

" Fame and success are very different things. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I don't need a man in my life. "

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

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

" I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve. "

" 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? "

" I have had death threats from people with fixations. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's a noisy environment we all live in, whether it's traffic or the workplace, so it's very difficult to think about your life in general. A lot of people are afraid to do that. They like to hide behind their work and not face up to a big problem in their life. "

" It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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