Quotes By Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Chris Martin
You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin
Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.
Chris Martin
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!
Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
Chris Martin
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
Chris Martin
I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin
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.
Chris Martin