A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

Martin has also worked on a solo collaboration with Kanye West with whom he shared an impromptu jam session during a 2006 concert at Abbey Road Studios. song "Losing My Religion" (with the former R. Martin does not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol but he does force himself to drink vodka when he behaves "like an idiot".