237 Quotes by Chris Martin

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

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.

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.

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

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

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.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

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

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