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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)

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

The Telegraph interview (2005)

They are as much "Enya" as I am.

The Telegraph interview (2005)

A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

KSCA interview (1996)

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 ...

Anna interview (2005)

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...

You interview (2006)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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