Chris Martin

Although it’s painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively – some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don’t agree with, you don’t work on.

Anything where we’re the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

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

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

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

The thing is, we’re not extravagant people. It’s just unbelievable the amounts of money we make. But we don’t spend it. It’s too scary to spend it.

I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

There’s not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family – too many incongruous knocks on doors – “Hello, honey. Have you missed me?”

Everybody knows me by this scent called Pink Sugar.

I’m a big fan of ‘The Office’, both the British and the American versions.

I like the red carpet. It’s like acting because it’s like a fairytale.

[on Disney banning junk food adverts] I think when you can get an occupant of the White House behind you, particularly one as formidable and effective and passionate as Mrs. Obama, that can’t hurt

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We’re all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

I’m just a big, hard tool.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it’ll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!

Yes, it’s that special time of year where we voluntarily imbibe pumpkin spice lattes, the coffee that tastes like a candle.

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I’m very generous, and I really want people to see that I am – that’s really it.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

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