Quotes By Chris Martin

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

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.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

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.

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

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

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.