Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

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".