Chris Martin

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

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.