Chris Martin
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.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
I do worry - a lot.
It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.
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.
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 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.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.
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'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
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.
Music is split up now into little pockets.
I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.
I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'
If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.
This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.
Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Brad Pitt, but it'll do.
You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.
You have two years to make a record and do what you like to it; then, you have 10 minutes to do an interview that could mess it all up. It's the Crispian Mills Syndrome.
What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
People who write happy songs are often unhappy.
Somebody rang me up the other day and said 'Yellow' was on a karaoke machine. That made me genuinely excited. It's got a nice beat.
Once a week, I don't eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that's why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.
People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words.
If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.
There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.
I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.
Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.
To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.
When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.
I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of music, it's OK to say it.
I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.
I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is.
India appeals to everybody. For me personally, I always felt like we would come here when we wanted to embrace all colours. I don't mean racially, but literally; just all the colours of the world.
For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.
The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift.
I give complete respect to any couple that stays together, however they do it, whether they do it by going on red carpets or going hiking together, you know, or keeping themselves really quiet and trying to stay out of all that press stuff.
I think if you're lucky enough to be in a band with your best friends, and you look at the world in the right way, than you understand that everything that's happening to you can be alchemized.
Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.