When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.
— Chris Martin
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.
To me, India's always represented 'everything'; it represents 'all.' Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you'll never feel like you've missed out on life.
I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is.
I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of music, it's OK to say it.
To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.
I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.
If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.
Somebody rang me up the other day and said 'Yellow' was on a karaoke machine. That made me genuinely excited. It's got a nice beat.
You have two years to make a record and do what you like to it; then, you have 10 minutes to do an interview that could mess it all up. It's the Crispian Mills Syndrome.
Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Brad Pitt, but it'll do.
This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.
I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'
Music is split up now into little pockets.
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.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.
I think if you're lucky enough to be in a band with your best friends, and you look at the world in the right way, than you understand that everything that's happening to you can be alchemized.
The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift.
India appeals to everybody. For me personally, I always felt like we would come here when we wanted to embrace all colours. I don't mean racially, but literally; just all the colours of the world.
I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.
I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.
If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.
People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words.
People who write happy songs are often unhappy.
I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.
We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.
I have a very wonderful separation-divorce. It's a divorce - but it's a weird one.
It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.
I give complete respect to any couple that stays together, however they do it, whether they do it by going on red carpets or going hiking together, you know, or keeping themselves really quiet and trying to stay out of all that press stuff.
For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.
You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.
When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.
When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.
I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.
There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.
Once a week, I don't eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that's why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.
What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.
I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.
