Chris Martin

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.

I do worry – a lot.

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 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.

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

You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Everything we do needs to be exceptional – if it’s not exceptional we don’t put it out there, because the biggest high for us is when we read comments from our customers saying that they can’t live without them.

I’m starting to know how the world works a bit, and I’m learning more and more that the only thing that matters is what happens between ‘action’ and ‘cut’. I’m allowing myself to be a bit more selfish, for want of a better word, just that it’s OK to focus and that I don’t have to be nice to everybody.

I believe that in life you should always take the serious things lightly and the light things seriously. This attitude of mine gets me into a lot of trouble.

Lipgloss is my calling!

No person who does not reside in Canada shall induce electors to vote for or refrain from voting for a particular candidate. And apparently anyone found guilty of doing that could be fined up to $5,000, given a six-month jail term, or both. That is a ridiculous law and I guess what you’re saying, Canada, is do you wanna dance?.

I love “The Office”. I think it’s the funniest thing – Ricky Gervais is possibly the funniest person I’ve seen in my entire life.

There are different audiences out there, and everyone has different tastes of what they want. And it’s a good thing because otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough stuff to go around.

To me, there’s two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

He was going to make it. He had a passion for driving a car … Adam was never interested in anything else.

People think clowns – I wasn’t a clown. I would run parties. I basically ran around for two hours and ate massive piles of Haribo.

First of all, you have to understand that I’m like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

When I was a question on Jeopardy!, that’s when I felt famous!

People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.

If you sold out the Troubadour, that was it.