"What about download culture—does it bother you if people illegally download your records?

No, not particularly, I don’t mind people downloading my music, there’s a side to it that frustrates me but I think maybe because I’m becoming an old fuddy-duddy the side of it that frustrates me is that I really love the art of the album, I like putting together a body of work kind of forty-five minutes or so and releasing it with the idea that people are going to play it from beginning to end, and as music is downloaded people select tracks and everything is kind of chopped up. ...

People moan about losing sales but I’ve found the more people download my record, the more records I sell. I also know that once I start touring I’ll turn up in towns where I’ve sold fifty records but seven hundred kids want to come out and see the show, so it builds a genuine fan base—that’s the important thing. " Read the whole interview