Chris Martin

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

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

There comes a point where it doesn’t matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

It’s difficult when you’re successful, to admit that you need help.

I’ve had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn’t got any worse – touch wood.

So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don’t really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you’re sequencing a record.

I dig chicks that have their own careers that have nothing to do with music. Chicks in the music business try to impress you with it.I like models.

(While accepting the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting) Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, ‘Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.’

I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we’re on the way back, but it’s just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it’s not going to happen overnight because we’re trying to catch up.

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

A lot of them also looked a little further down the line in the future than we did. We always did everything out of Level Cross (N.C.) in the backyard and we were fairly successful with the thing. Then it started being a bigger and bigger business. It started going and bringing more people in, more money, more technology, that kind of stuff. We still sat there in the backyard. By the time we got ready to do something about it, we were so far behind on our money and our engineering and all that stuff it’s just taken us a little time to get going.

I think Kanye West is kind of in a perpetual state of being interviewed and he shares his thoughts constantly.

To a smart girl men are no problem – they’re the answer.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

Ryan and I didn’t grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We’ll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don’t think about until there’s a problem.

Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it’s like, “Ugh, kids!” Maybe that will change when I get older.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

Easter is very important to me, it’s a second chance.

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they’re not what keeps you warm at night, or what’s ultimately the most important thing in anyone’s life journey.