You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
Music is split up now into little pockets.
I have a very wonderful separation-divorce. It's a divorce - but it's a weird one.
If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.
This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.
We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.
I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.
What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words.
If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.
There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.
I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.
When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.
I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of music, it's OK to say it.
I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.
India appeals to everybody. For me personally, I always felt like we would come here when we wanted to embrace all colours. I don't mean racially, but literally; just all the colours of the world.
I think if you're lucky enough to be in a band with your best friends, and you look at the world in the right way, than you understand that everything that's happening to you can be alchemized.
