Chris Martin

I always dream about other musicians. And they’re never interested in hanging out with us. It’s like being at school and the bigger boys don’t want to play with you!

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.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it’s out there in the world it’s no longer ours.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

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

When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

I still like to get carried away – but passively.

[On being told that he should be an agent with him having no acting ‘gifts’. And saying that you need to know absolutely nothing to be an agent.] I thought that’s the job for me.

I pay all my own bills… I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime.

The trouble is now, with rock’n’roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

I take conscious breaks for myself ’cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it’s important.

I saw Buddy Rich playing. He was wonderful, fantastic. I would say of just sheer technique he’s the best I’ve ever seen.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

You wouldn’t pour soda on plants.

I believe I could do dance on ice, or play in a musical of Freud’s life called ‘It’s Your Mother’ – or maybe one for the symbolists: ‘Jung at Heart’. There’s always the one about India: ‘The Gandhi Man Can’.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they’re going to come see you, and if they don’t, and if you’re kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won’t come see you.

Boys love being bossed around by me tho…

I’m not Sammy Glick. I’ve never killed anyone. I don’t have to. I’m too talented.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.