Chris Martin
Chris Martin
Christopher "Chris" Anthony John Martin is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and co-founder of the British alternative rock band Coldplay. Born in Whitestone, near Exeter in Devon, Martin went to the University College London where he formed a rock band with fellow musician Jonny Buckland in 1996 called Pectoralz...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth2 March 1977
CityWhitestone, England
CountryUnited States of America
Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.
I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!
I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
Music comes from a place we don't know.
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
I don't mind not being cool.
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 wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.