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And it was important to me to retain privacy, because I was kind of worried that fame might interfere with my writing, with my music that it might have changed what I was working on. вЂњIвЂ™d do the promotion and IвЂ™d enjoy talking about the music вЂ“ but then it was back to work on another album. I wasnвЂ™t looking for the fame it was more the success that I enjoyed. And sometimes, when it was more focused on me, I actually would refuse, because I didnвЂ™t feel the necessity. IвЂ™d say, вЂWhat does this entail? Does it focus on the music? Or is it going to make me more famous?вЂ™. But I was 27, I was really excited about the music вЂ“ and therefore, I asked questions about the interviews and the promotion that I was doing. ThereвЂ™s no rulebook, so I felt like if I was younger, maybe I would have done things differently. Because the focus was on the music, firstly, I didnвЂ™t know that I had to become famous to sell it. вЂњPeople loved enjoying listening to Orinoco Flow and then the album вЂ“ but they didnвЂ™t know if was a band they didnвЂ™t know anything. вЂњFrom the beginning, with Watermark, the success came with the music,вЂќ she explains of her public perception. In any case, she has been canny enough to have managed her public persona from the very early days. Why should anyone make me feel this is what I should do? Why? Whatever path you go down, you should feel comfortable with it.вЂ™вЂќ I didnвЂ™t think, вЂOh My God! IвЂ™d better settle down and have a familyвЂ™. On the topic of children, she told the Telegraph in 2008: вЂњPeople would say to me, вЂDo you want to settle down and have a family?вЂ™ and I would say, вЂIf itвЂ™s going to happen, itвЂ™s going to happenвЂ™. 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, вЂњFalling madly in love and getting married would be the most horrific thing that could happenвЂќ. 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 вЂ“ most prominently in 2005 when a man broke into her home and tied up one of her staff before GardaГ arrived. It has never been about hiding away, but rather safeguarding her privacy. She may be dispelling the вЂњenigmaвЂќ myth with every passing sentence, but when you donвЂ™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 wasnвЂ™t a case of I had to or I hadnвЂ™t it was just a case of right place, right time.вЂќ So itвЂ™s actually a chance to do more Irish press for the first time. so sometimes itвЂ™s only maybe been two interviews, and it could be to London and the availability to get journalists to go there. IвЂ™ve already been to New York, America, Germany, London. вЂњIвЂ™ve done interviews for all the albums,вЂќ she protests, вЂњbut 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 doesnвЂ™t look like sheвЂ™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 IrelandвЂ™s biggest-selling solo artist of all time to be. So when youвЂ™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, youвЂ™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 вЂ“ if you were to believe half of what you hear вЂ“ 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. The less you tell people, the more they want to know.