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"I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary," Enya says. "Fame and success are very different things, anyway. The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was, so I felt I had a choice. I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be out there at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person." When it comes to children, she notes that she has plenty of nieces and nephews, and she's also a surrogate aunt to the Ryans' two daughters, Ebony and Persia, now grown up. The couple are a decade and more older than Enya, and over the years have been variously accused of manipulating her and keeping her from the real world. It's clear that she relies on them heavily, but having seen her steely resolve over her stalkers, it's hard to imagine her being anyone's puppet. "It's a huge thing to have someone like that who believes in you from day one," is all she will say on the relationship, and when they come up in our conversation she refers to them not as her management team but as "my friends". (The Times Magazine, Dec. 2005)
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