On the topic of children, she told the Telegraph in 2008: “People would say to me, ‘Do you want to settle down and have a family?’ and I would say, ‘If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen’. Even though she wears rings on her wedding finger, her replies to questions on her relationship status in past interviews have cast doubt upon the compatibility of her lifestyle with a relationship, going as far as to say, “Falling madly in love and getting married would be the most horrific thing that could happen”. Her personal life, in fact, has never been delved into in detail. She is right to be cautious about her private space, having had issues with stalkers in the past – most prominently in 2005 when a man broke into her home and tied up one of her staff before Gardaí arrived. It has never been about hiding away, but rather safeguarding her privacy. She may be dispelling the “enigma” myth with every passing sentence, but when you don’t make a habit of turning up on red carpets, at swanky nightclubs or in the front row of fashion shows, people will inevitably imagine you as some sort of recluse. It wasn’t a case of I had to or I hadn’t it was just a case of right place, right time.” So it’s actually a chance to do more Irish press for the first time. so sometimes it’s only maybe been two interviews, and it could be to London and the availability to get journalists to go there. I’ve already been to New York, America, Germany, London. “I’ve done interviews for all the albums,” she protests, “but I suppose it depends on where I am. Not to be blunt about it, but why has she decided to talk to the press this time around? She is here to talk about her forthcoming eighth album Dark Sky Island, and today she has been conducting her first Irish interviews in seven years.
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She doesn’t look like she’s aged in the past 20 years, the same pale skin and dark eyes steadily holding your gaze as she pulls up a pew on the sofa, only the barest trace of her Donegal accent still audible in her voice. Or at least as normal as you might expect Ireland’s biggest-selling solo artist of all time to be. So when you’re half-expecting a diva with an intense stare, flowing sleeves and an entourage of assistants throwing rose petals at her feet to waltz boldly into the plush suite of a Dublin 4 hotel, you’re rather taken aback by the petite, soft-spoken and smiling middle-aged woman who greets you with a warm handshake instead. That maxim has never been more true than in the case of Enya, who – if you were to believe half of what you hear – only ventures outside of her Killiney castle once every seven years to bestow an album upon her adoring public, before disappearing back into the mist to the sound of crying angels. There are other songs on the album, all with Enya's beautiful voice and all blending New Age and Celtic, but for me those two mentioned are more than enough to make it worth your attention.The less you tell people, the more they want to know. With a blend of New Age music and Celtic rythyms, it seems more evocation than son g, conjuring up images of faraway and mythical places and dreams of other times. That was probably the first time I heard "Orinoco Flow." After all these years, I still don't pretend to understand it. I didn't need to know this was an album of her greatest hits (fact is, I'd never heard of her) I only wanted that one song. One such song (or perhaps melodic chant) was "In Memory Of Trees" on an album called "Paint The Sky With Stars" by an artist called Enya. I would then rush to my man in the music department, have him identify it and then I'd buy the album. Now and then a song caught my undivided attention. Years ago, I worked for Best Buy and each day listened to the music piped through the store. "Serendipity": finding something you do not seek.