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.

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

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

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.

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