Enya quotes & quips

From this supposedly rare Watermark interview (not transcribed on the archive pages, and apparently had a video before but isn't around now):
‘I spend an awful lot of money on clothes, but always try to make sure I really like, and will wear it, before splashing out
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And something that seems otherwise in later Enya appearances:
Pet hates are nylon tights and high heels. :D
‘They put you into that really grown-up category, if you know what I mean! I’ve always felt uncomfortable in high heels, they’re so obviously all dressed up.
~Enya, 1988
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I agree with the high heels feeling uncomfortable, though as I'm sure Enya does, will grin and bear it, since it's usually a one-off event (one of very few times a year). Those tights were annoying when having to wear them at ballet and school most of the week, but I rarely wear them nowadays. Then again I have my graduation ceremony in just under 2 weeks and will probably have to wear both. 😅
 
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I noticed this interview randomly comes up free from the Financial Times website (since yesterday, even has new comments) from searching "Tea with the FT" (go to the link through the image) :D so here's Enya talking about the naming of her (castellated mansion) castle 🪄🏰
"It was restored after a fire in the 1920s and it kind of lost its Victorian look. So I kind of brought it back to Victorian, with aspects of Georgian and contemporary. It was called Victoria Castle and then Ayesha Castle, but I have rechristened it Manderley Castle, after the house in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. It’s very much, sort of, me . . ."
~Enya, 2005 ♡
 
This is another rare-ish article, Enya talking about being recognised when she visits Australia (Enya mentioned this in a 2016 article too, this is earlier) :
“Somebody will approach me and say, ‘Do you know you look like Enya?’ I've thought about playing along and denying it. But that wouldn’t be right. I am Enya.”
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~Enya, 2008 ♡
 
Enya was asked here:

Do you hope to be recording into your 70s?
Well writing music is so easy. Depending on if you’re writing a score or a project, it could be anything – so I’d imagine I would definitely stay involved in music to a good age. Taking a break has been a huge realisation for me about how much I really enjoy what I do.
~Enya, 2015 ♡
(and regarding 'definitely stay involved in music to a good age' I hope so) 🤗🎶
 
Enya has been involved in Children In Need in the past, the Northern Ireland bit mostly (2001 and 2008) ☺️
She does wonder, what if her song Dreams 'a child in need of love and care' could've been released as a CiN single in 1985, along with the introduction of Pudsey Bear. 🧸

(Meant for Speculate Wildly thread haha)
 
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A little Enya quote/quip from here about trains
I haven't travelled by proper train for ages (besides the Tube in 2022) but I do the last bits Enya mentioned ☺️😶‍🌫️

“I find travelling by train gives you time to think and reflect. The rhythm of a train journey is particularly soothing; it allows you to listen to your thoughts, even plan the future, and daydream especially.”
~Enya, 2008 🤗

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Enya has requested several people jump onto the track in order to give her a little more time.

A suspicious package at Crewe Station also blamed on Enya, was found to be a beautifully wrapped turd, after the station was evacuated for seven hours.
 
If it means we all get new innovative anthems about the stars, the moon, and clouds sooner than 2030, then I imagine there'll be no shortage of volunteers
 
Tbh reading Enya's words on that made me think how much a perspective changes depending on where you live.
Whereas she feels safe enough to think and reflect and plan and daydream i am grateful if the train reaches its destination and get out alive.
 
Tbh reading Enya's words on that made me think how much a perspective changes depending on where you live.
Though living close to the sea (nicer seas than around most of England) is something you have in common. 🌊
I always find it uplifting walking by the sea, even with strong waves, but that's rare for me. Maybe it's a worry for people living or working near coasts (not really Enya with a sea view), but for those who only visit a beach on holiday I guess it's generally more comfortable. ☺️
 
From here, regarding Sark Island: "Does it sound appealing to you, to move to somewhere like that?"
"Not necessarily to move, but I’m fascinated. It’s so nice to hear of a place that’s a little bit of heaven. Just get on a boat, have a look at the stars. I feel that it’s important for people to make time for a moment like that. Do you look at the tree that you pass every day? We shouldn’t really lose sight of what’s there, because life is hard enough."
~Enya, 2017 ♡ ⛵🌌🌳🕊️😌

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"It's not necessary to visit the places we want to describe. We can also reach them with our fantasy, with our minds, with our souls.
A better way can be music: having ourselves transported with the inner strength of melody."
~Enya, c. 1997 💗 🎼
A new one to me, I'm not completely sure when this was published, but must've been around the time that Paint The Sky With Stars was released. ☺️🪄
From here
 
From here, first bit about composer Sergei Rachmaninoff 🎼🎹
"I love him, and love reading about his lifestyle. And his melodies are lasting a long time. [...] There's a little bit of envy there, because those melodies were written a long time ago. And it's a little like black-and-white movies. I'm a great fan of those, too. They are still classics.
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I think something that has great quality will last. It's something that I hope will happen to me."
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~Enya, 2000 ♡
 
This is another rare-ish article
Also from that one (I get the same, people are surprised or annoyed when I do speak, generally seen as quiet my whole life).:
"I was always quiet, even as a child, so there has always been an air of mystery around me [...] at school, they’d always say, ‘oh, we never know what Eithne’s thinking or what she’ll say next’."
~Enya, 2008 🔮
 
Similar to one already mentioned on this page; Enya seems to have considered it a long time ago:
"A long time ago I realised that you don’t have to go to that exotic country to go on a holiday, sometimes just a walk will do it. Nature can be unkind, but it’s very beautiful as well"
~ Enya, 2015 🌊🏞🏔🌱🛤🌬♡
 
"I don't seek to satisfy the public, otherwise that would worry me and make me too self-indulgent. I try above all to put forward a different music for those who wish to hear something else." ~Enya, 1989*

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*I think this is from 1989, also it's from a translation:
Je ne cherche pas à satisfaire le public, sinon ça m'angoisse et ça tend à me rendre trop indulgente avec moi-même. J'essaie avant tout de proposer une musique différente à ceux qui veulent écouter autre chose. J'espère que mon travail pourra encourager des compositeurs qui essaient également d'écrire des musiques différentes.
 
"Every time I start a new album, it's like the first time [...] doesn't make it any easier, somehow it's as if it's too much to live up to.
People assume success makes you confident. It doesn't. It creates new demands."
~Enya, 1997
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“I am delighted to win the RTÉ Choice Music Classic Album Prize. Watermark has a special place in my heart – it was my second album and really launched my career internationally. It is wonderful that people are still discovering it today and it’s an honour to be chosen for this prize recognising Irish music”
– Enya, 2025
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Announced win & Enya 2025 quote 💗

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And the recent (6th March) speech:

Thank you so much to RTÉ Choice Awards, I am very grateful to be winning this award.

When Watermark came out, I was just so excited to be able to make music. My love of music has always been a driving force to me, and any success always feels like a great bonus, as I've been determined to create music which is true to myself from a very young age.

Watermark really kickstarted my career, and has always remained very special to me. I couldn't have made it happen without Nicky and Roma, and I am eternally grateful for their talent, vision and support. This award is as much theirs as it is mine.

I also want to thank Warner Music; I had just signed to them at the time, and they allowed me the artistic and creative freedom to make Watermark what I wanted it to be. I am delighted that it has stood the test of time, and still resonates with so many people around the world.

The album's themes felt deeply personal when I made it, but years later, they are proving to be universal feelings, which are still connecting with a new generation. I am so thankful to the people who are still discovering Watermark, and those who continue to play it almost 30 years later.

Go raibh maith agat, thank you. ~Enya, 2025 ♡

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From this rare article

"The only thing I didn't play were the uillean pipes which are a sort of Irish version of the bagpipes. I can't blow hard enough for them. Everything else I did do, and that's one of the main reasons why I've spent 10 months on this project. I don't expect to have so long for the next one."
~Enya, 1986 🤗
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Haha Enya did end up getting a bit longer on the next one at the time (Watermark) and more like 10 years for the current next album! :grin:
 
From this article (with The Guardian saying that this is more than 24 years old 😅)
"You have to believe in what you're doing [...] but the only way to feel you're going in the right direction is time. That's why there aren't 10 Enya albums out there."
~Enya, 2000 ♡

Almost a quarter of a century later (that's strange to think :D) the wait for Enya's 9th album continues... only time will tell if a 10th studio album by Enya will be released during her time.
 
Don't know who came up with this article's title, but Eny-way, this quip came to mind earlier:
En my home ♡

~Enya, 1989 😊
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"I like a lot of what Trump has to say. Zelensky is a paedophile Nazi dictator, so when Trump tore him a new one, I was rooting for him to tear his balls off and shove them down his throat. To be honest non surgical genital mutilation is my fetish, so I really wanted to see it. MAGA!"
- Enya, 2025 :love:🤗:whistle:😻

I like that she has interests outside of bukkake.
 
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Probably would've said crap instead of rubbish if not for some interview before)

~Enya, 1991 ♡

I think she is a little more accepting of such artists these days (approving of Adele, Sam Smith and even Taylor Swift's songs as of 2016) but I get the annoyance. 😅
 
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Happy St Patrick's Day ☘️ lá fhéile Pádraig

Eithne Pádraigín's quote about hearing her own song at a spa :D plus her and Roma addressed as Patricia and Shane :laugh:
‘Oh yes, it did happen, it was very strange sensation to stand in a spa. It was myself and Roma and we went in for a workout class and we just stood there. But I was being called Patricia, my second name, and she was called Shane, it’s her second name, and the next thing they played Orinoco Flow and I just thought, “this is the last thing I’d ever do to sort of relax and do stretches to Orinoco Flow.”’
~Enya, 2015 :grin:

No wonder, Enya must've felt like she was on her last leg (literally) recording Orinoco Flow 😅

From http://enya.sk/2015/11/2741-2/

I found this a few months ago and re-discovered it :D

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'It's wonderful how the audience will wait for so long for an Enya album - I'm very grateful for that, but I never assume that people will be there to listen to it. I just feel that you have to believe in what you do, and then see what will evolve when you release an album.'
~Enya, 2008

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(from this; the And Winter Came electronic press kit)
 
What a lonely and poetic way of saying

"YOU'LL ALL BE DEAD OF OLD AGE AND DYSTENTRY BEFORE MY NEXT CASSETTE TAPE. Blessings."

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From the same article as 3 posts above:
I felt I had a choice… That’s really where it has evolved from.
It’s not me that I have purposely have hidden away. I had the opportunity to do it and I kind of thought, ‘Why not?’
~Enya, 2015 ♡

When you have a choice, why not indeed. 🤗

Reminds me of Yvonne Mitchell, talking about the story 1984 (which she sadly didn't live to): and how they (in the 50s) were glad have a choice. ☺️

I should include a post in that thread for her soon-ish. 😊

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From another article I mentioned here before:
That’s it. There was a documentary done on me. I don’t know if I agreed with it or not, but it highlighted the element of melancholy that is within Irish music – and that it’s in my music.
~Enya, 2016

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I'm guessing it was this 1992 Japan-produced documentary episode featuring Enya
The 'resurrecting her ancestors' bit in particular, slightly after the timestamped bit

where I just took notice of how fast/animated Enya's talking there. :D🍻
 
'I cooked oxtail and tongue when I was at boarding school, but I never ate it. You think oxtail soup is very refined, and then you see the tail in front of you, and you think, "that is a tail".'
~ Enya, 2016 ☺️

from this BuzzFeed article

Recently I had oxtail soup, but not the actual meat, I think the same. :gross:😅
 

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