Chris Martin

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

I don’t drink, I don’t take drugs, I don’t smoke.

I don’t actually own a car.

There comes a point where it doesn’t matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ than being in Coldplay.

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.

I’ve changed so much. I’m not nearly as cocky as I was, I was a real prat for the first month. I didn’t talk to anyone. I just drank coffee and told everyone I was 24 and this famous theatre actor just back from South Africa.

I was a little excited but mostly blorft. ‘Blorft’ is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

I’ve always learned how to deal with my problems through my words, through my education, and through my intelligence, which I think is important and the best way to deal with an issue.

I think, really, what it was was that I was raised in a very gray Britain in the 1950s. We were pummeled during the war. A lot of our cities were wrecked and smashed up and as we came out of that, we were baby boomers there; we didn’t have the candy apple red; we didn’t have the big chrome decals; we didn’t have Elvis. So what we did, we came out ferocious. We came out kicking and spitting and it was a reaction to the gray and depletion of our islands….

[On relationship with Jimmy Page] We’re still good friends, we both enjoy a rather dark sense of humour that comes, I think, from being on the wrong side of the tracks for all those wild years.

I couldn`t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician’s life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

If you really want something, you’ve gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

[to troops in Iraq] I’m looking at a group of heavily armed people here. I’m telling myself ‘if you’re not funny, it’s a problem’

This is what I’ve learned about women: A guy’s walking down the street and he kicks a Coke can, and out comes a genie, and the genie says: “I will grant you one wish.” The guy says, “I don’t need anything. I’m happy. I play tennis. I sing in a rock group. But there is just one thing. I want to go to Florida and I hate flying. Can you build me a bridge from London to Miami?” And the genie scratches his head and says, “I don’t think I can do that. That’s a bit too much.” So the guy says, “Wait a minute: women. Can you explain the ways of a woman’s mind?” And the genie looks at him and says, “About that bridge. Do you want a handrail and lights?” It’s a handrail and lights, man. Whenever there’s trouble with women we all go, “Just give me the bridge.” It’s much easier.

[about political pundits suggesting Trump be given a chance to be president] Now, in the broadest sense, I get that impulse: hope for the best in the face of very long odds. It’s like we’re on a plane and we just found out our pilot is a wombat.

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.

No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.

My little sister Stella partly looks up to me. She depends on me and I always try to set a good example for her.

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