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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.

We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.