Chris Martin

Music is split up now into little pockets.

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

Maybe it’s because I’m English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

I don’t actually own a car.

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

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.

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

Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men’s advances as long as they are in cash.

I try to just be grateful for what I have, and not [focus on] the things that I don’t have.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

Healthcare is like a pair of gym shorts. Even if it covers nearly all it is supposed to, you’re still left with some problematic gaps and terrible things can happen.

There are so many different definitions of ‘pretty.’ it’s so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring- nobody cares anymore.

Lipgloss is my calling!

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

When you go to Marvel, they lock you in a room with the scripts; they really are that secretive.

I usually don’t listen back to the shows but I finally did. Now I know the one thing that’s gonna make it even better than it already is!

I’m a sucker for those sweeping love stories. When I read the script (The Notebook), I couldn’t stop crying! I just had such a powerful, instantaneous reaction – it was written so well.

Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers’ hands, you’ve never seen so many cuts in your life.

The fans are just as crazy. because we have the young fans and the old fans now, so it’s more like double-trouble for us.