90 Quotes by Chris Martin

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

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.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.

In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.

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When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

Cool to me is following what you believe in.

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it 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 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.

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

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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.

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

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

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

I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

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.

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.

There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

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

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying.

I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.

As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.

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

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

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.

It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.

If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

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

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

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.

I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier.

I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great.

Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

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.

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.

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.

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

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

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

Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

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

Music is split up now into little pockets.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.

From the very beginning of my life, people have always enjoyed it when I was around for a couple of days at a time. So, I think, most people in touring bands are best in small doses. That's why we turn up in a town, play and then we leave before anyone can get sick of us.

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

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.

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.

The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

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.

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

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.

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.

I don't actually own a car.

College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together.

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.

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.

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.

The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic ideal that I'm aspiring for. I don't know. The lyrics are always about unsuccessful relationships. They're not all about the love between a man and a woman. It's about friendship and family. Deep down there's a lot of talk about general existence.

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

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.