I have to admit that I haven't read any of the books [of George Martin's "Game of Thrones"] and I don't refer to them. Apart from anything else they're very thick [in size] and they frighten me. A terrifying prospect.
George Martin looks like Santa Claus, but he's got a wonderfully disturbed mind.
George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.
I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
George Martin is an incredible writer.
I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together.
I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.
We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.
If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.
I'm very influenced by the work of George Martin and the string arrangements that he did for the Beatles.
With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.
