Chris Martin Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

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

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!

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

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

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.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

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.