I don't mind not being cool.

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

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

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 just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

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'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

We aren't cool and never will be.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

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.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

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.

You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.

I have a very wonderful separation-divorce. It's a divorce - but it's a weird one.

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

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.

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 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?'

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

I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.

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.

When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.

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.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

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.

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.

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.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.

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 don't actually own a car.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

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.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.

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.