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

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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. "

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

" 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 can only be who I 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. "

" My first language is Gaelic. "

" Fame and success are very different things. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" As with anything creative, change is inevitable. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "