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Enya
Irish
Musician
Born:
May 17
,
1961
Life
Me
Music
Success
Very
You
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The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
Enya
Great
Journey
Ocean
Central
Image
Symbolism
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.
Enya
Time
You
Winter
People
Approaching
Looking
Year
Spring
Autumn
Think
Back
Summer
Hopefully
Looking Forward
Quite
Hectic
Then
Help
Forward
Lives
Fame and success are very different things.
Enya
Success
Fame
Very
Different
Different Things
Things
I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
Enya
Life
Reclusive
Am
Private
Private Life
Just
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.
Enya
You
Change
Happy
Result
Three
Nothing
Spend
Musically
Out
Would
Feel
Years
End
Very
End Result
Achieved
Working
Album
Two
Set
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
Enya
Cold
Castle
Huge
Very
Want
Place
Homely
I can only be who I am.
Enya
Only
Am
Who
As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
Enya
Change
Creative
Inevitable
Anything
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
Life
Music
You
Change
Yourself
Writing
Own
Think
Would
About
Makes
Lot
Where
Anything
Your
Who
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
Enya
Journey
You
Song
Writing
First
Every
Lift
Formula
Little
Note
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
Enya
Success
Writing
Melody
Easy
Emotional
Make
Moment
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
Enya
Music
Before
Sold
Knew
Itself
Anybody
Who
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
Music
You
Wonderful
Say
Press
UK
About
Brutal
Week
Over
Wonderful Things
Next
Things
My first language is Gaelic.
Enya
Language
First
Gaelic
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.
Enya
Speak
Long
Area
Spoken
Because
Were
Ireland
Gaelic
Poorer
Much
Popular
I use my voice as an instrument.
Enya
Voice
Instrument
Use
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
Enya
Composers
Classical
Classical Composers
Tend
Listen
I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
Enya
History
Song
Gone
Every
Know
Parts
Were
Note
Whole
Even
I don't need a man in my life.
Enya
Life
Man
My Life
Need
I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.
Enya
Shopping
Own
Guard
Security
My Own
Dogs
Pets
Thing
Two
I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
Enya
Music
Back
Promotion
Always
Get
Want
Necessary
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.
Enya
Myself
Sit
Down
Melody
Evolve
Trip
Piano
Sing
So-Called
Might
Then
Start
Playing
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
Time
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Something
Knew
Reaction
Doing
Huge
Expect
Different
Happening
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
Enya
Unnecessary
Seemed
More
Could
Always
Been
Celebrity
Did
Famous
Things
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
Enya
Music
Seen
Because
Am
Very
Person
Want
Really
Appear
Shy
Shy Person
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
Saying
Fans
Before
Few
Finish
Studio
Know
Always
Got
Years
Very
Next
Loyal
Album
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