James Blunt dismisses Twitter haters

James Blunt thinks it's funny that, despite the phenomenal success of his latest album and singing to upwards of 10,000 fans every night, so much gets said about his Twitter haters, or as he describes them, "five guys in their bedrooms with their trousers around their ankles".

"I don't worry about five guys in their bedrooms with their trousers around their ankles... The shame is they don't bother to pull their trousers up, get on a train and come to a gig so they can shout at me direct" he tells The Huffington Post.

The singer-songwriter's got enough going on not to worry about that lot, anyway. Freshly wed to Sofia Wellesley, he's in the middle of an 18-month world tour, and shows no sign of slowing down. It sounds like married life will be travelling to him, not the other way round.

"I've always been good at staying in touch with my friends and family when I'm on the road," he says positively. "I want everyone to come and stay with us on the bus, otherwise it'd just be me and five blokes talking to each other for a year and a half, which could get tiring.

On his continued interest in the military, following his own previous career as a soldier:

"Military news is the first thing I read every morning. I still have friends and family serving, so it means a great deal to me."

On how his music tours and his former career in the Army have bizarre similarities:

"I have military friends who visit me on tour, and are always amused by how familiar the set-up is.

"I might be in charge, but I'm completely dependent on other people to get the job done. I might be the so-called VIP, but there are other people who've been doing it a lot longer than I have, and I have to rely on them utterly. It's exactly how we run a troop of soldiers."