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.
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
I can only be who I am.
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 don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.
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.
I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
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.
I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.
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.
I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
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 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.
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.
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.
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
