Quotes from Chris Martin

India appeals to everybody. For me personally, I always felt like we would come here when we wanted to embrace all colours. I don't mean racially, but literally; just all the colours of the world.

You have two years to make a record and do what you like to it; then, you have 10 minutes to do an interview that could mess it all up. It's the Crispian Mills Syndrome.

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

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

Once a week, I don't eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that's why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift.

I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is.

I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.

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

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

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

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

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.

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 had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.

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 just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.