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I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'

The social network will be the new production line.

LinkedIn is the Netscape of its era.

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.