Chris Martin

I’m never going to be as adept lyrically as Jay Z or Morrissey.

On a Zane Lowe interview, 2014. source, 2014

Ever since our band came out, we have been a very polarising group because we do a certain thing very well.

On the Zane Lowe interview, 2014. source, 2014

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

On the Live 2012 concert documentary., 2012

Music comes from a place we don't know, it sort of comes through the fingers and toes.

Chris Martin to the New York Times, October 2011. source, 2011

There’s an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where they get the text of an obituary wrong, and instead of saying “beloved aunt,” it says “beloved cunt.” And I always think that would kind of sum up the two sides of my life, the two sides of the coin. I’d like that.

Talking about death, RollingStone Magazine 2008. source, 2008

The whole rock star myth, which is 40 years old and basically nonsense, has nothing to do with being a rock star. Everybody gets trashed and breaks things. By that standard, plumbers and heating engineers are just as rock 'n' roll as rock stars.

Spin Magazine, 2008. source, 2008

Coldplay is for people with great taste, intelligence, incredible good lookingness, talent, ability, success, grabbing of life. Coldplay's for people who know what life's about. They're always entertaining. Delightful to talk to. Sweet, charming, incredibly good in bed. Virile. They have incredible success with girls, or boys, or both. They're generally just the world's best citizens. Maybe I'm biased, but I'm definitely right.

In an interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope, 3 July 2006., 2006

To be a frontman you have to be half very driven and half a total knob. I like to think I'm both.

On a Time Out London interview, June 8-15, 2005., 2005

They grow cheap tomatoes in Ghana, but I saw market stalls stacked high with cheap tinned tomatoes shipped in from Italy. If Ghana tries to export to Italy they are whacked with tariffs. It doesn't make any sense. We are making money out of these people and they can't afford to send their kids to school. We've got to keep banging on about fair trade. If people knew what misery these trade laws created they would be shocked.

To The Sun newspaper about his five-day trip for Make Trade Fair, January 2005. source, 2005

I love him, I really do. How much? Well, you know Leningrad in Russia. They should name it Lennongrad in honour of him.

On John Lennon (Q Magazine, November 2005, Page 88), 2005

I think girls are amazing but I also feel really guilty about doing stuff with someone that you don't really like. I don't believe there is such a thing as casual sex. Someone always gets hurt and I hate that feeling. One thing about girls is that I get scared. I get scared of my feelings being in the hands of another person, I know that feeling of waiting for a girl to call. That's scary.

On an interview with Q Magazine, August 2002 issue., 2002

Being nice is a lot easier when you're loaded. Of course I can be a bastard, but it doesn't make me feel as good as not being one. What I'm saying is, sometimes people think you're nicer than you are just because you've got loads of money and you can pay for things.

On an interview with The Telegraph, October 2002. source, 2002

My entire life is spent trying to push him forward at photoshoots. He's our packaging, he's a handsome bastard. source

Martin about his band mate Guy Berryman.

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

Alluding to his marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow

They'd all left for America — they were short-term lets — so they'd always leave food and, cos we didn't have much money, we would eat the rest of their cornflakes and listen to Ricky (Gervais) on XFM. source source

Yeah, but I don’t think that’s just a feminine thing. All men are soft and vulnerable, as well. (...) I think we boys, we men, are actually much weaker and softer than we like to think. source