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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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" 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. "

Enya

Time

Autumn

People

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

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

" Fame and success are very different things. "

" 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. "

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

" The Druids held the trees as very sacred. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

Enya

Focus

Feel

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

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

" 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

Beach

Moment

" My first language is Gaelic. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I can only be who I am. "

Enya

Who

I Can