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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" As with anything creative, change is inevitable. "

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

" 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. "

" My first language is Gaelic. "

" The Druids held the trees as very sacred. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was. "

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

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