Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

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".