“There are good days and not so good days, you know? But, the thing is…I got to have a ride in a fire engine. How cool is that?” Chris Martin
In an interesting feature wrote from his interview with UK Times and a few hours before he starts his UK tour, Chris Martin opens up about things his fans are interested to know. Does he plan walking-out on Gwyneth Paltrow? What he can’t get in England? ‘laid, and Toffee Crisps’. Is the tabloid telling the truth about him leaving the band? What does he have to say about his most successful album Viva La Vida’ released in June?
He talks about Jay-Z, and U2, writing songs, and about crying when he hears Obama’s victory speech, and about fame.
Here are some of the highlights, but I suggest reading the full the feature:
“I’ve got some strange superstition about trying to write as many songs as possible before I reach 33. And I’m 31 now. It’s more about imposing deadlines on myself.”
“I cry at The X Factor. I cry especially at The X Factor. If you don’t cry at The X Factor, you’re not human.”
“For what it’s worth, I see that song as being really positive. It’s more like a turning-over-a-new-leaf kind of song. Like, I f***ed up, and I don’t mind being punished, but I can get redemption.”
“When you start off, you feel like you’ve discovered those rules. Once you’ve used them again though, you realise it’s a dead end.”
“He said what? To be fair, we’ve done a lot of interviews at the BBC and it feels like a bunker in there. You forget there are people out there listening. You’re oblivious to the outside world.”
“Last year, in an attempt to impress my family I tried to cook some fish and peas, but I forgot to turn on the vent. And the thing about our fire alarm is that it’s connected to the fire station. So the fire engine comes around, and I was in a panic. I said, ‘Guys, I’m sorry. There’s no fire’. Then, two months later, I said, ‘Right - I’m gonna have another crack at this’ - and the same thing happened. Just as I’m running outside, the fire engine pulls up and the fireman says: ‘Have you been cooking again, Chris?’ So then I had to take a walk because I was a bit shaky. As it happened, the fire engine was going the same way, and they said, ‘Do you want a lift?’”
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