Chris Martin's Quotes

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

I don't mind not being cool.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

I do worry - a lot.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

I don't actually own a car.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.