Consumers, as has always been the case, love a hit single. If it's a hit, people are willing to buy it now in greater numbers than they were ever before, principally due to the proliferation of distribution channels.

Digital sales aren't growing fast enough to replace the losses in our traditional business. The challenge for the industry is to find some balance between singles sales and album sales. We want to create an artist experience, not a singles experience.

Ironically, online advertising is one arena of online activity in which South Africa has seen more substantial percentage growth than the US over the past four years, and where the growth rate for 2006 is similar to that in the US.

It's looking very positive for online advertising - a medium that has finally come of age. But this phenomenal growth masks the fact that the numbers would be far higher if the advertising industry woke up to the potential of the medium.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.