Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. I'm 24 years old, I've got a load a money, what am I gonna do, sit at home and twiddle me thumbs? No. I'm gonna go out and 'ave it.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?