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.

You don't just go with a majority because it's the majority. You go with it because it's right. If it feels right, do it. As long as it's legal.

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.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

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.