Quotes By Chris Martin

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.

I don't mind not being cool.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Music is split up now into little pockets.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

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.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I do worry - a lot.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

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.