Quotes from Chris Martin

When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

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

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.

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 do worry - a lot.

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.

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.

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 think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

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

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words.