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We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.