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I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

Dee Dee Ramone was the one who would go to Rockaway Beach, and he wrote that great song about it. He was the beach boy; he loved getting a tan and stuff, and he would ride the bus down Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway.

A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.