Chris Martin

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

“We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.”

“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.”

“If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.”

“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?”

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

“Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.”

“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.”

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

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

“I give complete respect to any couple that stays together, however they do it, whether they do it by going on red carpets or going hiking together, you know, or keeping themselves really quiet and trying to stay out of all that press stuff.”

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

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

“More idiots should just shut their mouths.”

“Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”