Chris Martin

My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands. ”

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it. ”

The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift. ”

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen. ”

Music comes from a place we don't know. ”

I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is. ”

When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too. ”

What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice. ”

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 don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly. ”