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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

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.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

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.

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.

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

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

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.