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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

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Chris Martin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 2
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Christopher Anthony John Martin
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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.
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Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.
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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.
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I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier.
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Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
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I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.
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It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
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When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
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In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.
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You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
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I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
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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.
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If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
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The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
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You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
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I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
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I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
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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.
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I don't actually own a car.
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When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.
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