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“Each heart is a pilgrim,
each one wants to know
the reason why the winds die
and where the stories go.”

Enya

Song lyrics, A Day Without Rain (2000)
Source: da Pilgrim, n.° 9

“Long, long journey
through the darkness,
long, long way to go;
but what are miles
across the ocean
to the heart that's coming home?”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“Always looking for a meaning,
all the time you keep believing,
but I don't know why
you won't say goodbye.
Even when the sun is shining
you don't see the silver lining,
but I don't know why
you won't say goodbye.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“There is no set sort of rules, or no set sort of formula to the way we work in the studio … so it's difficult to know … what we'll move on to next.”

Enya

KSCA interview (1996)
Context: There is no set sort of rules, or no set sort of formula to the way we work in the studio... so it's difficult to know... what we'll move on to next. We don't like to say, "Never, no we'd never do this"... But, we... like the setup as far as there's only three people in the studio... because the work is very personal, very intimate, very emotional... and that is very important to the album.

“Summer. When the day is over
there's a heart a little colder;
someone said goodbye,
but you don't know why.
Somewhere there is someone keeping
all the tears they have been weeping,
someone said goodbye,
but you don't know why.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“What I was looking for was a romantic athmosphere that I could feel at home with. I think I've achieved that. I love my home. I have friends round. I take care to live in it, not to work in it.”

Enya

On her castle
Women's Weekly interview (2006)

Enya Quotes about love

“A moment lost, forever gone,
can never be again,
so know how much it means to me;
all you said,
all you gave,
all your love to me.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“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.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“I'm very happy as I am. I realise that I made sacrifices early in my career and that it was hard on my relationships because, when I am working, I am very focused and it isn't easy, when you have been in the studio all day, to say to someone, 'I'll meet up with you later on.' I learned that it was necessary to be dedicated and put work first. But, at the same time, it was a wonderful feeling to be successful at doing something I loved.”

Enya

Women's Weekly interview (2006)

“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.”

Enya

The Telegraph interview (2005)

“From the City of Constellations
to the wanderer
and a Place of Rains
he journeys on…
…the City of hesitation and doubt
the Island of the house the colour of the sea
the Plain of Mementoes
he journeys on to find his love…
…the Valley of lost time
the City of End and Endlessness
the Isle of Revenents
he journeys on…”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“For me, I've derived from religion … what… I enjoy … and it's to go to church, but usually … when there's nobody else there. I just love that moment, ah, to just sit there. It's very peaceful, very calm, and very therapeutic, and it's … wonderful.”

Enya

KSCA interview (1996)

Enya Quotes about music

“Regardless of how I live my life, there are people who develop fixations that are not healthy. It could be a visual thing, or it could be the music that they are drawn to. These people need help.”

Enya

The Telegraph interview (2005)

“I do promotion when it is necessary … But I always want to get back to the music. The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.”

Enya

The Telegraph interview (2005)

“I and Nicky have got a lot of disagreements, but they are nearly always associated to music. Because we both are very strong-willing persons, we might sit in the opposite corners in the studio argueing about things. One does never know beforehand, whose idea works the best way.”

Enya

Anna interview (2005)

“I suppose there's a certain way I like the music to be performed, and I feel I can capture it better than anyone else. I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.”

Enya

The Telegraph interview (2005)

“I am really a very shy person … If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. I'm not a recluse. I like to go out, but I don't like the glitziness that goes with it.”

Enya

Women's Weekly interview (2006)

“Enya is more than just me. It's also Nicky, who arranges my melodies, and his wife Roma, who writes the lyrics. They believed in my music from day one”

Enya

You interview (2006)

Enya: Trending quotes

“It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting.”

Enya

The Telegraph interview (2005)
Context: There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make you go, 'What's this?' You play C, but why is it that one day it leads to G and it didn't yesterday? I don't know. It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting.

People , Way , Time , Night

“I think they find it — they find me quite confusing, because — they know the music, but they don't know anything about me … because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up … making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.”

Enya

On the music press
KSCA interview (1996)

Music , Thinking

“My light shall be the moon
And my path, the ocean.
My guide, the morning star
As I sail home to you.”

Enya

"Exile"
Song lyrics, Watermark (1988)

Home , Star , Light

Enya Quotes

“People have this image of me as an ethereal Lady of Shalott, floating across the battlements, but it's a very small castle as castles go — with no big ballrooms…”

Enya

You interview (2006)
Context: I live in Victorian Gothic castle in Killiney that I was so bold as to rename Manderley, because Daphne du Maurier 's Rebecca is one of my favourite books.... People have this image of me as an ethereal Lady of Shalott, floating across the battlements, but it's a very small castle as castles go — with no big ballrooms... I don't write my music in my home, only in the studio; I want as normal life as possible at home, with dinner parties and entertaining.

People

“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.”

Enya

The Telegraph interview (2005)
Context: The word workaholic is so severe, but I do focus a lot on my work... I think a lot about what I'm doing in all aspects of my life, what am I trying to achieve here, am I happy with this? 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.

Music , Feeling , Happiness

“I get very inspired by traveling, by being home in Donegal … all those wonderful moments I'll take with me to the studio. And they, ah, then become at some stage, a melody. That emotion that I loved at some stage will evolve as a melody.”

Enya

KSCA interview (1996)
Context: I get very inspired by traveling, by being home in Donegal... all those wonderful moments I'll take with me to the studio. And they, ah, then become at some stage, a melody. That emotion that I loved at some stage will evolve as a melody.

Love , Travel , Home

“There might be one little thing that makes all the difference, one note or one word. The fine-tuning is all important, and you've got to stay there until you get it right … That's why it can take years.”

Enya

The Times Magazine interview (2005)
Context: There might be one little thing that makes all the difference, one note or one word. The fine-tuning is all important, and you've got to stay there until you get it right... That's why it can take years.

“There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey.”

Enya

“I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary … Fame and success are very different things, anyway.”

Enya

The Times Magazine interview (2005)
Context: I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary... Fame and success are very different things, anyway. The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was, so I felt I had a choice. I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be out there at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

Success

“Amarantine is an ancient word, which means eternity. The poets describe an undying flower with that word, and I fell in love with that idea …”

Enya

Anna interview (2005)
Context: Amarantine is an ancient word, which means eternity. The poets describe an undying flower with that word, and I fell in love with that idea... For me that word suited rhythmically to the refrain of the piece. A-ma-ran-ti-ne. In our website the fans tried to guess something super-romantic to be the album's name, but this word was obviously never guessed by anyone.

Love , Flowers , Idea

“I like to stay up-to-date with what's happening musically … I wish people wouldn't think that such things were going to shock me. 'Wow! Does Enya really watch TV?”

Enya

The Telegraph interview (2005)

People , Music , Thinking

“They are as much "Enya" as I am.”

Enya

On her producer Nicky Ryan and her lyricist, his wife Roma Ryan.
The Telegraph interview (2005)

“The poignancy of things
A purple flower
The blossoms of spring
And the light snow of winter
How they fall”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Spring , Flowers , Light , Winter

“I have never come close to being married or engaged. I was with someone eight years ago when I questioned whether I wanted the pressure of being married or having children. I always felt that if pregnancy was to happen, it would happen; if it didn't, it didn't. … I have security, I don't need a man in my life. I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing…. The downside of success is stalkers. I have had death threats from people with fixations who need help.”

Enya

You interview (2006)

Life , Death , Children , People

“If I could be close beside you
If I could be where you are
if I could reach out and touch you
and bring you back home
Is there a way I can find you
Is there a sign I should know
Is there a road I could follow
to bring you back home to me”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Way , Home

“You know love may sometimes make you cry,
so let the tears go,
they will flow away,
for you know love will always let you fly
— how far a heart can fly away!”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Love , Tear , Heart , Cry

“It's only now when words are said
that break my heart in two,
I wonder how you can endure
all I've said, all I say to you.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Heart

“Many childless single woman would be at my age already in panic. Also I have been thinking for the last 3 years, why I have been sacrificing so much time for my work. But, I have ended up to a thought that I would never change a single day out of my life. It would be lovely to get a family one day, but my life doesn't end even if that would not happen.”

Enya

Anna interview (2005)

Love , Life , Age , Family

“When I left school, I had a list of priorities headed by 'marriage' and 'children'. That is how, I suppose, as a woman, you are brought up to think. At the same time, as I grew older, I told myself that if it happens, it happens, and that will be fine, but if it doesn't, that will be fine, too.”

Enya

Women's Weekly interview (2006)

Marriage , Children , School , Thinking

“I started writing instrumentals but Roma pointed out they were very visual, so she started writing lyrics.. and Nicky had this idea of creating a wall of sound and started multi-tracking my voice.”

Enya

The Times Magazine interview (2005)

Idea

“You know when you give your love away
it opens your heart,
everything is new.
And you know time will always find a way
to let your heart believe it's true.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Love , Way , Time , Heart

“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 … People feel a very personal connection with the music.”

Enya

The Times Magazine interview (2005)

People , Music , Feeling , Time

“You know when love's
shining in your eyes
it may be the stars
fallen from above.
And you know love
is with you when you rise,
for night and day belong to love.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Love , Star , Night

“Late at night
I drift away -
I can hear you calling,
and my name
is in the rain,
leaves on trees whispering,
deep blue sea's mysteries.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Tree , Sea , Night

“I felt as if we were two families: the older ones, who were away touring when I was at school and the younger ones. I was closer to my two younger sisters because of the nearness of our ages, but I feel I would have to have permission to say their names — they're very private that way.”

Enya

You interview (2006)

Age , School , Family , Way

“Where is the beginning?
Where is the end?
Why did we fall into days?
Why are we calling out into the endlessness?
Who knows the way it is?
Who knows what time will not tell us?”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Way , Time

“All days come from one day
that much you must know,
you cannot change what's over
but only where you go.”

Enya

Song lyrics, A Day Without Rain (2000)

Change

“Winter lies before me
now you're so far away.
In the darkness of my dreaming
the light of you will stay”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Dreams , Light , Winter

“We call out into the distance…
Less than a pearl in a sea of stars,
we are a lost island in the shadows.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Star , Sea

“English translation: Life of lives, beginning to the end. We are alive forever.”

Enya

"The Celts", from The Celts (1987) Translations for The Celts http://www.pathname.com/enya/celts.html#the-celts, from Enya: Translations and Lyrics. English translation by Fidelma McGinn, Daniel Quinlan, and Willie Arbuckle.
Song lyrics

Life

“Listen to the rain
Here it comes again
Hear it in the rain
Feel the touch
of tears that fall
— they won't fall forever
In the way the day will flow
all things come,
all things go.”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Way , Feeling , Tear

“I joined my family's band, Clannad, as a teenager in 1980 to sing harmonies and play keyboards, but it wasn't musically challenging for me; I felt like an outsider. … My split from Clannad two years later caused a conflict of loyalty for a time, because I went off with their manager Nicky Ryan, who had asked me to join Clannad in the first place.”

Enya

You interview (2006)

Family , Music , Singing , Time

“Our words go beyond the moon.
Our words go into the shadows.
The river sings the endlessness.
We write of our journey through night.
We write in our aloneness.
We want to know the shape of eternity.
Who knows the way it is?
Who knows what time will not tell us?”

Enya

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)