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You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

All my collaborations happen in different ways. Sometimes it's through a chance meeting at a festival or event, while others can happen just off the back of me liking their music and reaching out.

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

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.