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HOST: Valerie Pringle; Dan Matheson
GUEST: Enya, "A Day Without Rain"
PRINGLE: I don't know if you should say this, but where a lot of people here Enya is if you're having a massage or if you're in an office waiting.
MATHESON: Or in any store that sells candles.
PRINGLE: I know if the person that cleans all this makeup out of my skin -- I hear Enya's music. I mean it's that kind of music that's so popular. She's won a couple of Grammys.
MATHESON: New Age. Mellow.
PRINGLE: She hasn't made a disc in five years and so she has a brand-new one and it went platinum in Canada almost instantly. She's so popular. [taped segment begins]
PRINGLE: Now you've already gone platinum. What's left to do -- double, triple, quadruple? That was like in a week-and-a-half or something. I mean that's unbelievable.
ENYA: Yeah, it is, but --
PRINGLE: I guess when you hold your fans at bay long enough --.
ENYA: Well, I would never say it like that. I would never take it for granted because the way I work in the studio is I focus on the music, so much so that I forget the success and the listener. And it's kind of like getting really involved with experimenting with the music and the writing of the music.
I work with two other people, the same two people from the beginning -- which is Nicky Ryan the producer, and Roma Ryan who's the lyricist. So for me, when I finish an album it's like my first album again because the work on this album is two years. So it's kinda like I finished the album, I'm happy with the music, I'm happy with the music, but then I feel, "Wow, are there any listeners for this music?" -- you know, because it's been two years.
PRINGLE: How many albums have you sold worldwide -- or discs, as we like to say?
ENYA: Quite a bit, I believe. But again, it's something --
PRINGLE: I've got one here. I know. You sorta out-sell, or at least equal, Madonna in terms of record sales. Millions and millions.
ENYA: But to me, again, it's so nice to be able to solely...