It does something to your brain which is odd... you have to work really hard not to be a real d**k (in personal life). source - Chris Martin

I’m never going to be as adept lyrically as Jay Z or Morrissey.

There's too much information (on social media). Everything you do is available all the time, so the only thing you can rely on is not being false. source

No human being is only positive or negative. White or black, we all have both sides, the bright and the dark. There are no angels, it's a myth, nobody is a single thing, it's easy to fall into cynicism because wherever you look there are aggressions, war, destruction. I get it, ok? And it's true that for some Imagine [song by John Lennon] will tell you absolutely nothing. And if you have lost your cousin in an attack you would not want to hear it, you would be furious.