Chris Martin

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.

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.

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

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it’s like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.

I guess my parents were strict. There were a few times when being with my friends and had bring my sister. It was just my parents best interests.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time, because it’s too hard…To put it loosely, the reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up…

I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

I know some people say it’s not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it’s always worked so well for me.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Be nice to your siblings, they’re your best link to your past and the most likely to stay with you in the future.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

People say: “Oh yeah, jobs for the boys”. I wish. You’ve got to fight even harder with a family like mine.

When your children arrive, your heart becomes a room with wide open windows.

I learned in those eight years is that home is where you make it, and we were in the White House for eight years, but it wasn’t the house. It was us in it. It was our value and our love for each other.

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.