I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

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".