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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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Chris Martin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 2
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Christopher Anthony John Martin
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Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.
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More idiots should just shut their mouths.
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Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.
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I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
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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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Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.
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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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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.
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The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
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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.
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