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
All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.
I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.
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.
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 like it short but it's getting farther and farther back, so it's growing long
I have no idea how people will respond. The main concern about the Mills project was the traffic and parking congestion.
I've just come to terms with the fact that there is a group of people out there who is interested in one side of things that I'm not really interested in.
They coughed up the ball, and we were able to capitalize.
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.
Country is a very sleeping beast within us,
Everyone tells me it's very healthy. It's very depressing, but it's very healthy. We always have this bubbling level of vitriol.