Enya Quotes
"The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked."
- Enya
(Related: Knowledge, Celebrity, May, Security)
"My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live."
- Enya
(Related: Idea, Beliefs)
"My first language is Gaelic."
- Enya
(Related: First, Language)
"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."
- Enya
(Related: Music, Press)
"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."
- Enya
(Related: Time, People)
"Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung."
- Enya
(Related: Being, Singing)
"The Druids held the trees as very sacred."
- Enya
(Related: Trees)
"The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was."
- Enya
(Related: Music)
"The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey."
- Enya
(Related: Journey, Ocean)
"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."
- Enya
(Related: Events)
"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."
- Enya
(Related: Want)
"The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy."
- Enya
(Related: Success, Writing)
"I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie."
- Enya
"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."
- Enya
(Related: Church, Growing up)
"When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success."
- Enya
(Related: Music, Success, Forget)
"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."
- Enya
(Related: Music, Fans, Sense)
"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."
- Enya
(Related: Change, Music, Life, Writing)
"The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me."
- Enya
(Related: Music, Success, Thought)
"I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary."
- Enya
(Related: Celebrity, Famous)
"As with anything creative, change is inevitable."
- Enya
(Related: Change)
"Fame and success are very different things."
- Enya
(Related: Success, Fame)
"I am not reclusive. I just have a private life."
- Enya
(Related: Life)
"I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life."
- Enya
(Related: Change, Life, Love, Job)
"I use my voice as an instrument."
- Enya
(Related: Voice)
"I can only be who I am."
- Enya
"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."
- Enya
(Related: Ireland, Popular)
"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."
- Enya
(Related: Time)
"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."
- Enya
(Related: Career, Company, Events)
"I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen."
- Enya
(Related: Music, Want)
"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
(Related: Love, Discipline, Listening, Walking, Writing)
"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."
- Enya
"I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone."
- Enya
(Related: History, Song)
"I have had death threats from people with fixations."
- Enya
(Related: Death, People)
"I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe."
- Enya
(Related: Europe, Years)
"I don't need a man in my life."
- Enya
(Related: Life, Man)
"I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing."
- Enya
(Related: Dogs, Pets, Security)
"I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music."
- Enya
(Related: Music, Promotion, Want)