The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic ideal that… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
