Quotes By Chris Martin

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

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

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

I don't actually own a car.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

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

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

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.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

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.

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

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.

I do worry - a lot.

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

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.

We aren't cool and never will be.

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

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?

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 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!