Chris Martin

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

It’s difficult when you’re successful, to admit that you need help.

I have my moments – usually twice every album – when I basically lose it.

I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

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.

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.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn’t do. I was totally anti-everything. I was a right bastard, a right hard nut. I just totally closed the doors to ever wanting to know what they had to teach me. Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.

I do think things were meant to happen. I’m just this little girl from Tennessee, and here I am today. I think a lot of things are just out of your hands.

Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them – they’re like my trademark shoes now!

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 always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don’t wanna do the same thing over and over again because that’s, well, first of all that’s no fun.

I think they can co-exist. You don’t have to put one down for another. I’ve been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won’t take away from the music.

Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattended.

There’s only one person for every job. You can try all you want, but if you’re not right for it, you’re not gonna get it.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I’ve watched the Emmys for almost my whole life, so it was crazy to finally be there in the audience clapping and actually going on stage. Hopefully one day I’ll get to be actually nominated.

My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she’s a songwriter.

This is what happens when you release a great body of work after they spent millions to ruin you.

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

Lately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.

I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I wouldn’t even trade the acne scar on my right cheek, because that recurring zit spent more time with me in college than any boy ever did.