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.

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

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.

Music comes from a place we don’t know.

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

I can’t say I was. I wasn’t not a (Harry Porter) fan. I hadn’t read any of the books or anything. I read The Goblet of Fire when I was doing the other film, and I really liked that. I got through it in about two days. I’d say I’m a pretty big fan now.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don’t want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

I want to try a lot of things that I haven’t tried. You know, I did a thriller (Red Eye) after this, because it was so different and it was a genre I hadn’t worked in yet. Then I did a beautiful family ensemble drama. And next? I don’t know. I might go off to do a small independent in New York. I’m not sure. The quality of material is important but, basically, I’m open to anything. I like to stay open to anything.

I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it.

I feel like I’m always having to justify why I haven’t kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I’m like that with anybody. I don’t let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

To me YES, AND means don’t be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you’re adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.

In my experience, there was never anything quite like the egos in CSNY.

Apparently, I don’t know if this is true but I hope it is, I’ve heard it from a few reports, when we went up to get our awards apparently Clint Eastwood turned to someone that he was with and went, (Clint impression) ‘Who the f**k are they?’

On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue. I’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question.

My younger sister and I had the same modeling agency.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

I do worry – a lot.

There are always generic terms like ‘Americana’, but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.