Quotes By Chris Martin

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

I don't actually own a car.

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.

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.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

I do worry - a lot.

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.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

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.

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

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!

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