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This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.

At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.

I understand our audience loves to see some drama on TV, but even they have got bored with similar patterns of carrying out reality singing shows.

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.