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
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.
Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.
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.
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.