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

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

" I can only be who I am. "

Enya

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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. "

Enya

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" As with anything creative, change is inevitable. "

" I use my voice as an instrument. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Enya

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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. "

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