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
There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.
I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.
When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.
Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
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.
Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.
If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.
I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.