Quotes By Chris Martin

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

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.

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 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 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.

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 think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

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've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.