Chris Martin Quotes

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 personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

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

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

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.

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.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

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

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

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.

I don't actually own a car.

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.

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.

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?

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

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.

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

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

Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head.

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

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

Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating

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

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.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.

We aren't cool and never will be.

Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.