Chris Martin Quotes & Sayings

Cool to me is following what you believe in. — Chris Martin

Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating — Chris Martin

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that. — Chris Martin

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going. — Chris Martin

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. — Chris Martin

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

The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real. — Chris Martin

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money. — Chris Martin

He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head — Chris Martin

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help. — Chris Martin

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

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. — Chris Martin

Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it. — Chris Martin

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

I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great, — Chris Martin

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

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. — Chris Martin

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it. — Chris Martin

Even when other people don't expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative. — Chris Martin

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours. — Chris Martin

I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough. — Chris Martin

Some people are into bondage ... and some people are into crossdressing.. and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish. — Chris Martin

I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false. — Chris Martin

Nothing matters except life and the love you make. — Chris Martin

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police',
and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows. — Chris Martin

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

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean? — Chris Martin

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

When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility. — Chris Martin

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all. — Chris Martin

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

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. — Chris Martin

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop. — Chris Martin

In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect. — Chris Martin

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. — Chris Martin

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

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers. — Chris Martin

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting. — Chris Martin

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

We aren't cool and never will be. — Chris Martin

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive. — Chris Martin

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. — Chris Martin

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk! — Chris Martin

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. — Chris Martin

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff. — Chris Martin

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you! — Chris Martin

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin

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

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything. — Chris Martin

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen. — Chris Martin

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate! — Chris Martin

I don't mind not being cool. — Chris Martin

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it. — Chris Martin

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same. — Chris Martin

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift. — Chris Martin

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. — Chris Martin

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

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it? — Chris Martin

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

I don't actually own a car. — Chris Martin

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 then it will be great at some point. — Chris Martin

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on. — Chris Martin

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason. — Chris Martin

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical. — Chris Martin

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more. — Chris Martin

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three. — Chris Martin

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. — Chris Martin

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

College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together. — Chris Martin

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account. — Chris Martin

More idiots should just shut their mouths. — Chris Martin

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

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story. — Chris Martin

We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions and all that. But we have a chemistry that no one else in the world has. So we don't mess with it." - Chris Martin — Chris Martin

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like. — Chris Martin

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer. — Chris Martin

Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting. — Chris Martin

All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture. — Chris Martin

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant. — Chris Martin

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly. — Chris Martin

So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record. — Chris Martin

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. — Chris Martin

It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest. — Chris Martin

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay. — Chris Martin

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference? — Chris Martin

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it. — Chris Martin

Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head. — Chris Martin

Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. — Chris Martin

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back. — Chris Martin

Music is split up now into little pockets. — Chris Martin

It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement. — Chris Martin

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way, — Chris Martin

The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious. — Chris Martin

Music comes from a place we don't know," he said. "It sort of comes through the fingers and toes. So we came up with the idea of, what if you had musical digits, like xylo toes." He shook his head, irritated that he gave up the secret so easily.

And what about "Mylo"?

"It's just a great name," he said. "For anything. — Chris Martin

If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against. — Chris Martin

As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in. — Chris Martin

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world. — Chris Martin

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. — Chris Martin

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends. — Chris Martin

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax. — Chris Martin