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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

I think with certain artists you want to hear their album... and then there are other artists who I like where maybe it's more about the single. I don't think there is going to be one way that everything works.

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.