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
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
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.
When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
I send my love to Liam. We're not in a fight with everyone - except George Bush.
Country is a very sleeping beast within us,
Somewhere in the world Alan McGee is having a heart attack. He said we'd never make it.
Everyone tells me it's very healthy. It's very depressing, but it's very healthy. We always have this bubbling level of vitriol.
We realized we were able to build the same house at the same price or less with less headaches. It makes it easier for us to build the houses.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom would have a lot more.
So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.
We all agreed that philosophically, it was not OK, and ethically, it wasn't OK. We're going to take the word 'divert' totally out of our vocabulary.
Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.