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My first language is Gaelic.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Gaelic
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I use my voice as an instrument.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Instrument
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The Druids held the trees as very sacred.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Sacred
Held
Trees
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Fame and success are very different things.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Different Things
Fame
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I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Private Life
Am
Private
Reclusive
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As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Change
Creative
Inevitable
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Threats
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The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Anybody
Sold
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Classical Composers
Classical
Composers
Tend
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Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Good Night
Goodnight
Sleep
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The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Ocean
Great
Symbolism
Central
Image
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The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Melody
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I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Promotion
Necessary
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The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
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Carpet
Events
Red
Red Carpet
Appearances
Bit
False
Personal
Personal Appearances
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I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Privileged
Life Love Change
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I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Enjoyed
Europe
Toured
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Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Gaelic
Natural
Singing
Lends
Sung
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I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Security
Shopping
Dogs
Guard
Pets
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I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Note
Parts
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When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Process
Deeply
Sink
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There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Song
Formula
Lift
Note
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It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Cold
Homely
Huge
Castle
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I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Shy
Shy Person
I Am Shy Person
Music I Am Person
Appear
Seen
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The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Knowledge
Security
Include
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I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Unnecessary
Did
Seemed
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Choir
Church
Growing Up
Mum
Church Growing Up Up
Organist
Sing
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My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Core
Beliefs
Revolve
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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.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Success Music Me
Commercial
Personal
Surprised
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Huge
Everything Else
Expect
Happening
Reaction
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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.
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Express
Relating
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Brutal
Next
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Press
Uk
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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.
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Gaelic
Ireland
Area
Popular
Poorer
Spoken
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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.
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My Own
Time People True
Period
Studio
Tend
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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.
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Events
Intact
Record Company
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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.
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Discipline
Domain
Humming
Melody
Sitting
Beaches
Studio
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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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Evolve
Melody
Might
Sing
Sit
So-Called
Start
Trip
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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.
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Writing
Life Change Music
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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.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Fans
Loyal
Next
Album
Few
Finish
Studio
Saying
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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.
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Fine
Album
Cup
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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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Three
Achieved
Album
Set
End Result
Working
Spend
Musically
Result
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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.
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Aspect
Focused
Sells
Music Always Me
Music Me Always
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The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion but without ever knowing the reason for its flowing in motion on the ocean the moon still keeps on moving the waves still keep on waving and I still keep on going
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Ocean
Moon
Moving
Song
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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.
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Autumn
Hectic
Hopefully
Looking Forward
Spring
Summer
Winter
Looking
Quite
Approaching
Back
Time Looking Forward Looking
Forward
Time Looking People
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Different Things
Easy
Fame
Focus
Lifestyle
Normal
Profile
Success Music Me
Towards
Low
Private
Success Is
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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.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Difficult
Environment
Noisy
Problem
Traffic
Workplace
Life Work Your
Lot
Afraid
Face
General
Behind
Big Problem
Hide
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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.
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Beach
County
Evolve
Melody
Begins
Oh
Composers
Eventually
Studio
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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?
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Happy
Life Work Music
Emotions
Firstly
Interpret
Striving
Ponder
Question
Relationships
Seem
Sit
Start
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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.
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Music
Matter
Mirrors
Needs
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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.
Enya / Singer-Songwriter
Calming
Evolve
Musical
Wintertime
Time Where Me
Time Me Will
Gather
Inspirations
Studio
Reflective
Throughout
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