Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

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.

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

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.