Quotes from Enya

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

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

I use my voice as an instrument.

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.

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

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 Druids held the trees as very sacred.

When there's a shadow, you follow the sun. When there is love, then you look for the one. And for the promises, there is the sky. And for the heavens are those who can fly.

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

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

My first language is Gaelic.

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.