"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 personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything."
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"I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it."
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"I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private."
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"Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it."
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"I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer."
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"Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical."
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"He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back."
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"I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!"
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"Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting."
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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 physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that."
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"Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive."
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"Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is."
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"Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words."
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"Music is split up now into little pockets."
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"From the very beginning of my life, people have always enjoyed it when I was around for a couple of days at a time. So, I think, most people in touring bands are best in small doses. That's why we turn up in a town, play and then we leave before anyone can get sick of us."
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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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"I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet."
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