Enya Quotes

The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.

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

Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

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

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

My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

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.

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

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

My first language is Gaelic.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

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.

A lot of 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.

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

Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.

We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.

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

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

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

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

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

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

Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

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.

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

I don't need a man in my life.

People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meaning to the music, and thats great when this happens because it shows its striking a chord.

I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

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

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is

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 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.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

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.

There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.

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

There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make you go, 'What's this?' You play C, but why is it that one day it leads to G and it didn't yesterday? I don't know. It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting.