You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

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".