Top 155 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Martin - Page 2

Music is split up now into little pockets.

There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.

Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Brad Pitt, but it'll do.

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.

Once a week, I don't eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that's why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.

I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.

I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.

When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.

India appeals to everybody. For me personally, I always felt like we would come here when we wanted to embrace all colours. I don't mean racially, but literally; just all the colours of the world.

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

Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.

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

Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.

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 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!

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

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

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

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

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

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 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.

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.

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

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.

I think if you're lucky enough to be in a band with your best friends, and you look at the world in the right way, than you understand that everything that's happening to you can be alchemized.

We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.

I do worry - a lot.

The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift.

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

I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

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

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.

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.

When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.

We aren't cool and never will be.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Cool to me is following what you believe in.

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

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