U2's Bono and the Edge are making their Broadway debut by writing the music to the upcoming 'Spider-Man' musical. The frontman and guitarist recently sat down with Italian fansite U2place.com to share some insight on the pairing of two pop culture giants.

"We were open to the idea of musical theater," Bono says to start off the nearly two-minute video segment. "But Spider-Man, that's a different thing again because that's comic books. There's a whole series of relationships by rock bands and comic books, that goes back years."

"In many ways, the audience for comic books and a rock 'n' roll band are the same," Edge says. "It's kids like ourselves, 15, 16, out in the suburbs. [And] it seems there's this world out there you can't get access to and the only way you can connect with it is through music or comic books or movies. The character Peter Parker, he's not from another planet, he's not been constructed out of some strange substance -- he's a human being. He's a kid, come up through a regular high school and got bitten by a spider. Could happen to anyone."

Edge then turns it personal. "I think it's every rock 'n' roll star's story in a weird way in parallel," he says. "Every rock 'n' roll star has probably started out as the geek who was bullied in school and eventually, their form of revenge was to write songs and to learn to play guitar or sing or play drums. And some of us ended up in big bands."

However, Bono wants you to know he wasn't that guy. "I'm more of a Green Goblin," he says laughing. "Edge is the nerdy guy."