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"I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false."
"The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same."
"I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying."
"It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement."
"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."
"Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt."
"If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against."
"I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke."
"Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that."
"Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative."
"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."
"When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations."
"You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star."
"I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever."
"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."
"I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great."
"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."
"I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like."
"All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers."
"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."