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
Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
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'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 mind not being cool.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
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 just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
Music comes from a place we don't know.
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.