Chris Martin Quotes

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

I think it’s part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class – you’re always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

You can never say you’re big – I don’t think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

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 don’t speak particularly well. That’s one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

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

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

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you’re together, which is that you just like each other.

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

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Record sales don’t really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn’t feel like he wasted his pocket money.

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.

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

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don’t know what it is.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you’re singing it from someone else’s angle. But it’s always from me. It’s just a new way of framing it.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.