Anything where we’re the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
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.
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.
There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.
As an artist, one doesn’t know what is real. And so there’s a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.
In America idea of freedom isn’t actually about freedom. That’s about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one’s freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
I don’t mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.
When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
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 gotta wear the right trousers if you’re gonna be a rock star.
You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don’t think about until there’s a problem.
I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it’s out there in the world it’s no longer ours.
I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Music is split up now into little pockets.
I don’t actually own a car.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don’t know what it is.