Chris Martin

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.