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
The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.
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 to investigate what we really think is real.
There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.
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.
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 flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,
You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.