Top 60 Quotes by Chris Martin

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 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 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.

I do worry - a lot.

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 at all.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.