Chris Martin

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 know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we’re fine with it.

You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you’re gonna be a rock star.

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

I don’t actually own a car.

People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.

It may not be the best in someone else’s eyes, but it’s the best I can do.

When in trouble, take a bath and wash your hair.

[on acting] Sometimes I think, ‘To hell with acting’ and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

I have just been saying whatever the f**k I want. That’s always a breath of fresh air… everyone is so filtered these days. I’m just back to being reckless and being a Southside, Jamaica, Queens, New York rapper

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I’d had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

I love you like a fat kid loves cake.

I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.

When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

As Dan was doing school at the time I was just sitting by myself for ages and at the time I wanted to be taken really serious as an actor so I used to just sit around just drinking coffee all day and trying to look really intense.

The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.

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 was born in ’74, so I missed out on all the great early ’60s and early ’70s.

I’d rather be called King than other things I’ve been called.