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.
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 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?'
Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.
I don't actually own a car.
For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is.
Somebody rang me up the other day and said 'Yellow' was on a karaoke machine. That made me genuinely excited. It's got a nice beat.
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in 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.
I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.
When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.
The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift.
Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.
People who write happy songs are often unhappy.
