It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.
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.
You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
I don't mind not being cool.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
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.
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.
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.
Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
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'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.
Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.
