David Gray

The shows have a celebratory tone, but I also do more sort of inward looking music and projects.

And I have sort of other kind of more esoteric dreams going.

creative dreams and I will be pursuing those with vigour and intent because they're so important to me to extend that part of my thinking out the width of what I'm doing and the depth of it so that's going to be less about commercial stuff rather than just targeting how can we follow this success up with an even bigger tour and you know

more arena shows or whatever.

That's not the way I'm thinking.

I'm thinking about what matters to me most in my head and my heart.

What's really wanting to be made and what is it that I really want to do?

What's the song I really want to sing?

I think that's more what's happening over time is I'm making more time and being more discerning about...

the sort of the democracy of how I spread time and focus across different projects and things.

So that's how it's changing.

It's a challenging time.

I'm very fortunate to be on the other side of the line in that

I made a success of things before technology took away the idea of a record sale.

And when the record sale was removed from the music business, all kinds of problems were left in its way, which haven't really been sorted.

What you've seen is the ticket price gets higher and higher because the event becomes everything.

And that's more complicated than just not having the records on sale.

That's part of the way life has changed.

Being at something and showing people you're there has become a really important thing.

But it's also had to make up the gap for a lot of artists where the money from your publishing or whatever...