“I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music...” — Enya Quote

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

“I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me.”

“Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.”

“I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.”

“The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.”

“I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.”