Chris Martin

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

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.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.

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.

Friendship, ‘the wine of life,’ said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

I think I had the best of James [Taylor]. I mean, I was so in love with him. Not with blinders on – I was in love with him because he is a remarkable man, and he gave me a tremendous amount.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you’re not going to get anywhere.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five’s a charm?

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt

I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she’ll care for me.

I don’t know where to find a good guy. I just think that they’re around and I think you have to be good and at some point you’ll attract that. I really believe that. First, people should stop looking. The looking thing does not work. Just let love find you.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.

Don’t confuse feelings with facts and don’t ignore facts when they come as feelings.

A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.