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" I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing. "
Enya
Shopping
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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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" 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. "
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" I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone. "
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" I don't need a man in my life. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am not reclusive. I just have a private life. "
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" 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. "
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" My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live. "
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Core
Beliefs
Around
" 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. "
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" The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked. "
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" The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me. "
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" I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. "
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Want
Because
" The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was. "
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Who
Sold
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" 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. "
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You
Feel
Result
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I can only be who I am. "
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Who
I Can
Am
" 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. "
Enya
Discipline
Writing
Listening
" My first language is Gaelic. "
Enya
First
Gaelic
Language
" 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. "
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Career
I Can
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" I have had death threats from people with fixations. "
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People
Threats
Death
" As with anything creative, change is inevitable. "
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Change
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Creative
" 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? "
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Life
" I use my voice as an instrument. "
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Use
" The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. "
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Red Carpet
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Beach
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" I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life. "
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