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
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.
It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
I don't actually own a car.
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.
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.
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Music is split up now into little pockets.
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.
You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,