Chris Martin

I don’t speak particularly well. That’s one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I’m never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

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.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

I don’t drink, I don’t take drugs, I don’t smoke.

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

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

No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

It’s very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they’ve made to my life.

My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex-ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

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.

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

Women talk about stuff on the way to the valet that it takes men 10 years to admit to each other. The depth at which women talk to and about each other is invaluable to me. With your really, really close good friends you do that fast.

[On hooking up romantically with co-stars] It’s understandable. You’re in situations with an actress where you’re supposed to be intimate, physical, and vulnerable with each other, and sometimes feelings get crossed. It’s like you’re away at summer camp and it seems to make sense, but when you go back home, the reality is that it may not be a situation you want to be in.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

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.