Quotes About Enya

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.

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

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

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

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

Who doesn't love Enya? Whenever I'm in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I'll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius.

Enya was a huge deal for me. That kind of woman vocals and how wide those productions were.

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but that's more electronic.

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 is a very matriarchal musical force. Her music is very feminine and she layers her voice a lot. It leaks into my music secretly on the side. There's a lot of lush layers of my voice hiding in the cracks.

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.

My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.

My guilty pleasure is listening to Enya in the bathtub. I do bubbles. I do essential oils. Candles, if they're around.

My first language is Gaelic.