Enya Quotes

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

I'm definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. 'Flamingo' wasn't just me dipping my toes in the water. I really loved it. It was successful, and that helps, but I love those songs, and I miss singing them.

I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.

The thing I love about hip-hop is that it's so creative. It's so creatively rewarding. When you hit it, and you hit it big, there are no words.

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.

I knew that I had done my best on 'Tell The Truth'… I was so proud of that record.

I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.

When I wrote 'Dopamine,' I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.

Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take. And that is a really scary and vulnerable place to be, so having those songs be embraced is the best feeling in the world. That's been our dream our whole lives.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.