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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

[on Mae West] I do think she was a spectacular talent. There’s no question she was a comedic genius, but I did, in person, actually feel like she was some kind of a dockworker in drag.

When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

I think it’s a responsibility, but like Tupac Shakur, I’m a real model. Which means: I’m not pretending to be something that I’m not, because like he said, people are going to be disappointed when they find out who you are, because it’s not going to be what you presented to the world. So just keep it real. I’m a good kid and that’s all.

Besides, I’m a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Sick of all these people talking, sick of all this noise. Tired of all these cameras flashing, sick of being poised.

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

Because I talk so much shit they give me overcredit just to shut me up!

I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime.

[on Edward Cullen in ‘Twilight’] He’s a poet, and very deep and profound. He’s just extraordinarily troubled.

I certainly didn’t want to date. I was through with guys.

I love the ’80s. I’m obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.

I try to just be grateful for what I have, and not [focus on] the things that I don’t have.

Denver’s pretty quick. They couldn’t keep up with him in the open field.

Like many, I don’t watch Saturday Night Live (even though I past hosted it) – no longer funny, no talent or charm. It is just a political ad for the Dems. Word is that Kanye West, who put on a MAGA hat after the show (despite being told “no”), was great. He’s leading the charge!