IN a world where music stars are becoming more (in)famous for their tiresome extra-curricular activities than their day jobs, Amy Macdonald seems like a delightful prospect.

You won't see this Scottish starlet punching photographers or being carried out of bars by her minders. You're unlikely to read anything salacious about her private life either.

As she explains on a rare day off — the irony of doing an interview on her day off isn't lost on her — she's just not interested in the darker side of celebrity.

"I can't see why anyone would like people to see them falling out of a club. I just can't work it out," she says.

"Why would you want a picture of yourself in the paper looking terrible? I just love music, and I do this because of that. I'm so passionate about music and I love going on stage performing to people, so I don't need to see myself in Heat magazine, I just don't care about that.”

Amy puts her level-headed approach to fame down to the fact she still lives in Glasgow, a city in which stars don't have to fend off the paparazzi, as they do in London.

"Because that culture's not here, it's very easy to have a normal life up here," she says, "and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. If did move to London and my life completely changed and I was getting followed all the time, I don't know how I'd deal with that," she says, seeming genuinely terrified at the thought.

"I think I'll stay here and be normal for as long as humanly possible."

But if she carries on in the same way with her music, she might not have much say in the matter.

Amy's debut album This Is The Life was released in July 2007 and went on to sell more than three million copies around the world — a million of those in the UK.

Her new album, A Curious Thing, was released earlier this month, and early signs are good for it to do every bit as well as its predecessor.

"I was so nervous and a little bit anxious about this one," admits the 22-year-old. "There are so many people that are waiting to hear it, it's nerve-wracking waiting to see if they like it.

"I have a really bad habit of checking figures and things, though. I'm constantly on iTunes and Amazon looking at where it is in their charts. It's a bad thing to do, but I can't help it," she says.

• Amy Macdonald plays the Manchester Academy, tonight.