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
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I am relating to them something that is quite personal.
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
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.
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
The Druids held the trees as very sacred.
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
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 is not really true.
Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you are in the can.
