Chris Martin Quotes

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

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

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.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

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

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

Cool to me is following what you believe in.

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

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

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.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

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

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.

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.

There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

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

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

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

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

I don't mind not being cool.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.