"Duran Duran is truly like my second band," he told us. "I'm so proud of them: from their begininngs to where they've come to now. Their earliest stuff was amazing: 'Girls on Film,' 'Rio,' those were fabulous records. But now, there's a maturity that I was trying to bring out of them when I did the song 'Wild Boys.' I was very conscious and aware of the fact that they had sort of this 'pretty boy' image and they were the MTV band, and I knew what they were capable of, given the right direction.