Chris Martin 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?

I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

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

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

I don't actually own a car.

Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.

As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.

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.

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.

The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police',
and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

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

The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Some people are into bondage ... and some people are into crossdressing.. and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

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.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

Music comes from a place we don't know," he said. "It sort of comes through the fingers and toes. So we came up with the idea of, what if you had musical digits, like xylo toes." He shook his head, irritated that he gave up the secret so easily.

And what about "Mylo"?

"It's just a great name," he said. "For anything.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

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.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.

Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

I do worry - a lot.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

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

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 don't mind not being cool.

Cool to me is following what you believe in.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

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.

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.

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.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

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

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

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!

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.

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.

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

Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head.

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.

The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

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

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.

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like, you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point.