Editing Enya (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Enya Castle.jpg|right|thumb|[[Manderley Castle]], Enya's home since 1997]]
Known for her private lifestyle alongside the music, Enya said in the mid-1990s, 'The music is what sells. Not me, or what I stand for... that's the way I've always wanted it.'<ref name=enyabookofdays1997/><ref name="thetimes1995">{{Cite web|last=Jackson|first=Alan|date=24 November 1995|title=You Can't Hurry Loveliness|url=http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/tmot-3.htm|access-date=23 March 2016|archive-date=31 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131002500/http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/tmot-3.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>  In a German interview from 2005, Enya stated 'I have always been shy. In former times, I wasn’t happy with that, but today I accept it and live my life after it. And I dare to express something private like emotions in my music and make it visible for the public.'<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |date=2021-04-27 |title=Enya: Amarantine. Enya about her Solitariness |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427212734/http://enyabookofdays.com/articles/amaran_10.htm |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> Enya later mentioned in 2008 that 'it’s more important to have my private life and freedom than come out and argue about how I’m seen', regarding it as 'a small disadvantage in trying to retain my privacy. I can live with it.'<ref name=":11" />

She has not married and has no children, but has many nieces and nephews and is [[Fictive kinship|considered an aunt]] to the Ryans' two daughters, having shared their Artane home for almost a decade.<ref name="thetimes2005">{{cite web|last=Williamson|first=Nigel|date=10 December 2005|title=The Invisible Star|url=http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/amaran_16.htm|access-date=29 December 2016|work=The Times|archive-date=1 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501155944/http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/amaran_16.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Williamson|first=Nigel|date=10 December 2005|title=The Invisible Star|work=[[The Times]] (in The Magazine supplement)|quote=her "best friends" are her managers, Nicky and Roma Ryan, a generation older and with whom she lived for several years when she was struggling to get established.}}</ref> In 1991, she said, 'I'm afraid of marriage because I'm afraid someone might want me because of who I am instead of because they loved me... I wouldn't go rushing into anything unexpected, but I do think a great deal about this.'<ref name="hotpress1991">{{Cite journal |last=Burke|first=Molly McAnally|date=14 November 1991|title=I Hear The Angels Sing|url=http://enyabookofdays.com/articles/sm-2.htm |journal=Hot Press|edition=22|volume=15|access-date=20 March 2016|archive-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512080856/http://enyabookofdays.com/articles/sm-2.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Press often alluded to a relationship ending for Enya in 1997,<ref name="dailynews1997" /> and that around this time she was considering taking time out of music to have a family. Enya found she was putting pressure on herself over the matter and has 'gone the route [she] wanted to go' after all.<ref name="guardian2000" />

Enya has identified herself as '[[Spiritual but not religious|more spiritual than religious]]' and has said that she sometimes prays, but prefers 'going into churches when they're empty'.<ref name="latimes1996" /> Though her political stances are rarely disclosed, in 1988 she stated that 'there is money in Ireland but it's not fairly divided. Generations-old [[Wiktionary:potentate|potentates]] and [[politician]]s have reduced the whole nation to beggary.'<ref name=":1" />

As a result of injury from a [[car crash]] in Dublin in 1997, Enya recalled that 'it took a lot of work to get my body back to singing. It was traumatic and shocking, but as a result I became more aware of my health and stronger as a person.'<ref>{{Cite web |author=Natsumi Ito |title=Enya 100Q |url=http://www.pia.co.jp/100q/44/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726002410/http://www.pia.co.jp/100q/44/ |archive-date=2015-07-26 |access-date=8 Dec 2024 |language=ja |trans-quote=It took a lot of work to get my body back to singing. It was traumatic and shocking, but as a result I became more aware of my health care and stronger as a person.}}</ref> This occurred several weeks before the [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|fatal car crash]] in [[Paris]] that took the life of [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Princess Diana]].  In November 1997, Enya mentioned upon news of her contributing to Diana's tribute album, 'I met Lady Diana twice and the second time we met she told me that my composition "Watermark" was a favourite melody of hers.'<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-16 |title=Enya: Paint the Sky with Stars |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216184634/http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/ptsws-18.htm |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> Enya's track "Watermark" was included on the end-of-year artist [[compilation album]], [[Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute|''Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute'']].

At an auction in 1997, Enya spent £2.5 million<ref>{{Cite news|last=Aizlewood|first=John|date=2000|title=Queen of the castle|newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/nov/20/artsfeatures2}}</ref> on a 157-year-old [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[Record of Monuments and Places|listed]] castellated [[mansion]] in [[Killiney]].<ref name="themirror2005">{{Cite news|title=Enya Pad Will Be a Fortress|work=The Mirror|date=2 May 2005 |url=http://enyabookofdays.com/articles/amaran_11.htm|access-date=5 January 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114508/http://enyabookofdays.com/articles/amaran_11.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="theexpress2021">{{Cite news|title=Enya at 60: Singer broke the rules to become Ireland's biggest star – Where is Enya now?|work=The Express|date=18 May 2021}}</ref> Formerly known as ''Victoria Castle'' and ''Ayesha Castle'', the house was renamed by Enya as [[Manderley Castle]] after the house featured in [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s 1938 novel ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'' .<ref name="independent.ie2011">{{Cite news |url=http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/nextalbum-1.htm|title=Why Enya's ready to come out of the shadows|first=John|last=Meagher|date=14 May 2011|access-date=20 March 2016|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624203412/http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/nextalbum-1.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Prior to moving into the castle, Enya was believed to have resided in London, and spent time there throughout the 2000s. She spent several years renovating the castle, and installing considerable [[security]] measures because of threats from [[stalkers]].<ref name="theexpress2021" /> The improvements covered gaps in the house's outer wall, installed new solid [[timber]] entrance gates and {{convert|1.2|m|ft|0|adj=on}} iron railings, and brought the surrounding {{convert|41|m|ft|0}} of stone wall up to a new height of {{convert|2.7|m|ft|0}}.<ref name="themirror2005" /> In late 2005, the property had two security breaches; during one incident, two people attacked and tied up one of her housekeepers before stealing several items.<ref>{{cite news |last=McKittrick|first=David|date=5 October 2005|title=Enya escapes intruder by hiding in panic room|work=The Independent|location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/enya-escapes-intruder-by-hiding-in-panic-room-317211.html|access-date=14 August 2009}}</ref> Enya alerted police by raising an alarm from her [[safe room]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4305058.stm|title=Enya's castle invaded by stalker|access-date=14 February 2007|date=3 October 2005|work=BBC News}}</ref> Enya oversaw most of the interior design (decorations and furnishings of her castle) as she was 'not going to trust that to anyone else.'<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Forbes|first=Michelle|date=2000|title=Enya At Ease |url=http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/adwr-9.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613132643/http://www.enyabookofdays.com/articles/adwr-9.htm|archive-date=2021-06-13}}</ref> Enya also has an autographed picture of [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] in her home.<ref name=":2" /> Enya later bought a home in the south of France, also close in location to the home of U2 singer [[Bono]], near [[Èze]]. She spent time renovating it to a more [[Contemporary art|contemporary]] style than the Victorian style of her castle home.<ref name=":12" />

Enya is an avid [[art]] collector; her collection includes artworks by Irish artists including [[Jack Butler Yeats]] and [[Louis le Brocquy]] and the British artist [[Albert Goodwin (artist)|Albert Goodwin]].<ref name=":2" />  She also likes to [[Painting|paint]], although has been reluctant to share it as 'it shows too much of myself. If it is included in a song, it’s less a problem for me' as mentioned in 2005.<ref name=":13" /> In a Spanish interview in 2016, Enya mentioned that her painting is 'something very personal. I share my thoughts when composing music but I prefer painting to stay private, at least for a few years.'<ref name=":14" /> She has also stated that she collects [[first edition]]s of books.<ref name=":2" />

Enya recalled reading books in her youth such as ''The Lord of the Rings'', and the [[Malory Towers]] series by [[Enid Blyton]], prior to going to boarding school herself.<ref name="Petersen_ivw" /> Enya mentioned her favourite books being ''Rebecca'' by Daphne du Maurier and ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' by [[Oscar Wilde]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last=OfficialEnya |date=2016-03-15 |title=[AMA] I Am Singer-Songwriter, Musician, and Producer Enya - Ask Me Anything! |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/4ak23o/ama_i_am_singersongwriter_musician_and_producer/?rdt=41361 |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=r/Music}}</ref> Enya has shown admiration for the [[Literature|literary works]] of both Wilde and [[J. R. R. Tolkien]].<ref name=":14">{{Cite web|date=2016-02-14|title="La gente se mueve a un ritmo vertiginoso y no ve lo esencial de la vida"|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/magazine/personalidades/enya-gente-se-mueve-un-ritmo-vertiginoso-no-ve-lo-esencial-vida.html|access-date=2023-08-24|website=La Vanguardia|language=es}}</ref>

Visual-media-wise, Enya has mentioned watching operas, such as [[Madama Butterfly|''Madame Butterfly'']] at the [[Sydney Opera House]], especially as she frequently travels to Australia to visit her sister and other relatives, occasionally getting noticed 'at the most obscure places' she added in 2008.<ref name=":11" /> She also likes watching [[Black-and-white|classic black-and-white films]], especially those directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]. She is also drawn to watching [[crime drama]]s or [[period drama]] series, such as ''[[Breaking Bad]],'' and ''[[Mad Men]],'' saying 'myself, Nicky, and Roma are huge fans of ''Breaking Bad''. We just didn't miss an episode.'<ref name=":3" />