Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.