James Blunt: Glamour Magazine

CR: So you're the love song guy.

JB: I'm not really.

CR: But you wrote "You're Beautiful." You're not romantic?

JB: There were only tow love songs on my first album, and there were 10 songs. So I'm 80 percent non-romantic, and only 20 percent romantic. Why do you think in ever interview they write I'm a "sensitive singer-songwriter"?

CR: I don't know. You don't seem sensitive to me at all, yet.

JB: [Laughs.] That's sweet of you to say.

CR: [Laughs.] OK, Let's talk about relationships.

JB: Can't we talk about music instead?

CR: Sure. How do your relationships affect your music?

JB: Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

CR: On your new album, All The Lost Souls, you write about success and fame.

JB: Yeah, I do, or at least the way we define success nowadays through fame and money. Things that are really shallow. 

CR: You've had some experience with that.

JB: [Laughs.] Are you calling me shallow?

CR: I was actually calling you famous. When you see tabloid stores about you, do you feel you're reading about someone else?

JB: Yes, I would say 90 percent of those stories are wrong or just entirely made up.

CR: How do you deal with that? You don't read them?

JB: No, I don't mind reading them.

CR: Right, how else would you know who you're dating?

JB: Exactly. I need to know in case someone asks me.

CR: What made you want to be a musician?

JB: Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

CR:Is your song "Same Mistake" about a regret?

JB: It's an admission really. I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.

CR: They want to be told what to do?

JB: Yes, because honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

CR: I hadn't thought about it that way! Do you like touring?

JB: I love it! Except people steal my clothes.

CR: Maybe they are selling them on eBay. What's the most interesting thing of yours that's been sold on eBay?
JB: I actually sold my sister.

CR: What?

JB: Yeah, I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland-- the airlines were on strike-- so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.

CR: How much did she go for?

JB: I can't talk about how much my sister is worth! It was two and a half years ago, and last summer they got married.

CR: That's incredible. I'm going to put myself on eBay. How much do you think you can get for me?
JB: [Laughs] I can get a good price for you. and I'll tell you what, if I autograph you along your back, I think you'll go for 10 percent more.

Lunch:
Where: Big Daddy's Diner, NYC

What they ate: Caesar salad and a chocolate milk shake (James); pancakes and a strawberry milk shake