So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.

I have a very wonderful separation-divorce. It's a divorce - but it's a weird one.

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

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.

To me, India's always represented 'everything'; it represents 'all.' Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you'll never feel like you've missed out on life.

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?'

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.

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.

When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.

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.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

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.

There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.

You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.

I don't actually own a car.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.

Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Brad Pitt, but it'll do.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.

You have two years to make a record and do what you like to it; then, you have 10 minutes to do an interview that could mess it all up. It's the Crispian Mills Syndrome.

Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!

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.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

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.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

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.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.