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

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

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

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

I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

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.