Chris Martin Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

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.

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

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

Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating

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

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

I don't mind not being cool.

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.

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

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.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

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.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

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 don't actually own a car.

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.

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

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

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