Chris Martin

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

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

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

I think it’s part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class – you’re always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

I’ve never been cool and I don’t really care about being cool. It’s just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I have my moments – usually twice every album – when I basically lose it.

True friends stab you in the front.

I don’t understand how in my parents’ age, it was ’til death do us part, and in mine it’s ’til cheating do us part, ’til lying do us part, ’til chemistry do us part, ’til disagreements do us part, ’til boredom do us part, ’til cowardice do us part. I just want what my parents have, that part.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don’t believe in it, and I never have. I’ve never changed. I’ve never changed my hair. I’ve never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I’ve always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.

A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before you will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Partnerships must have loyalty and integrity at their core.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

You know the funny thing, I don’t get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.