Imogen Heap Chats To I Like music

ILM: That's all extremely positive, but how about the issue of illegal downloads and file sharing. How do you feel about that?

Imogen: In some sense a lot of the success of Speak For Yourself came through illegal downloads and people sharing that music for free. People don't buy records any more. They don't need to. At the moment we're still in a transitional period and we do need to figure out a new way of making money. I'm quite lucky as I write things for film and stuff for other people. But for musicians that just do it alone and rely solely on the sales of their own records, it's another story. It will eventually sort itself out, but at the moment it does hurt us if people download illegally. Although in the same sense, it doesn't hurt if people share with their friends and then that gets passed on over and over again. My one thing is that I don't want people to hear it before it is released properly. I just like to keep it that way, so that when people hear it for the first time, they get to hear a really good copy of it.
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