Chris Martin
I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.Collection: Money
We aren't cool and never will be.Collection: Cool
I don't mind not being cool.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Cool
There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.Collection: Faith
You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
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.
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.
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.
The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
To me, India's always represented 'everything'; it represents 'all.' Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you'll never feel like you've missed out on life.
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.
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!
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.
Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.
If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.
I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!
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 have a very wonderful separation-divorce. It's a divorce - but it's a weird one.
Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
Music comes from a place we don't know.
There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
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'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
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.
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.
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.
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 personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
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 just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
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.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
I don't actually own a car.
I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
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.
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 think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.