Chris Martin

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

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 think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

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

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

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

There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.

No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

We were out of work actors who played a lot of video games, so we were sort of surprised that Swingers was seen as cool. I think any cool in it was a geekiness, an awkwardness that most people can relate to.

Before you, my life was like a moonless night, but there were stars-points of light and reason. Then you flew across my sky, and there was light. When you were gone, when the meteor had flown over the horizon, nothing had changed, but my eyes had been blinded by the light. I couldnt see the light anymore, and there ceased to be a reason for anything.

I’ve got a terrible memory – I end up repeating myself quite a lot. The only thing I can remember is that I’m going to repeat myself!

I’m very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I want to know the answer.

I believe in large families. Every woman should have at least three husbands.

[asked if she ever had any summer traditions when growing up] My family rented a cottage in Canada. They’d blare “Wake Up Little Susie” at seven in the morning throughout the entire campground. Everyone would roll over to the lodge and have sticky buns for breakfast, and then we’d jump on the trampoline all day long.

When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.

[on motherhood] I feel good, I’m proud of Election (1999) and very proud of this (her child). It couldn’t be a better time. It’s always the right time when it happens. You make it the right time.

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I’m a fast reader.