Chris Martin

Music comes from a place we don’t know.

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

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

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.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

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

I’ve been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn’t have room to because I was drinking all the time.

I’d rather be called King than other things I’ve been called.

This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!

I’ll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.

Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can’t even commit to being uncommitted.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

I didn’t miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they’re your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

Dammit, interviews are not what I do.

You’re better off being a brick layer if you’re going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

[On being criticized after admitting she and then-husband Ryan Phillippe have gone to couples therapy] Since when is self-improvement a negative? Why wouldn’t I be interested in psychology? I like to read a lot of psychology books. I’m obsessed with child behavior; I would love to be a child psychologist.