About Chris Martin: Christopher Anthony John is an English singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and is the lead vocalist and co-founder of the band Coldplay.
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.
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.
I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
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'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.
I don't mind not being cool.
We aren't cool and never will be.
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 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 don't actually own a car.
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.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
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.
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
