Chris Martin On What’s Kept Coldplay Together | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you know you talk about how important. chemistry is and I know is the band a. democracy you know does everyone have a. a voting say I think the this is very. hard to answer objectively but I'll try. okay I think the five of us because. there's four four that you see myself. Johnny on Guitar Guy play Bas will who's. the drummer samier and then Phil who is. um our kind of creative director he and. you've known him 13 yeah yeah and he was. the other person where I grew up who was.

like we're going to do this and we would. read books about R and You2 and the. police and we were both in a blues band. with this slightly older kid who was. teaching us about mtown and we that's. what we're going to do but with no real. uh belie no real knowledge of. how so for whatever reason we've all got. our gifts in the world and mine is I get. sent songs and I get a very clear idea. of how we're supposed to where we're. supposed to to go as a band and I get.

sent ideas all the time for this and. this and this and this and this and this. and this and so and filled do to in a. different way for more sort of where we. should play or uh let's release an album. then or something like that so to. counterbalance that you have will and. guy who we're not talking about music. we're just talking about how the band. operates they are more of the naysayers. in a good way to make sure we don't do. all the stupid ideas but they sort of. pick what actually is good and that's.

the same with with music except that on. all of our songs I know this is a. long-winded AR no this is this is and. all of our songs they are like a. production line mostly which is that I. get sent sort of the skeleton of the. song and the title and everything and. I'll present that and then Johnny G and. will will layer their stuff on it and. it's not finished until they've all. either put their parts on it or or. decided not to so we we always split our. publishing royalties.

Whatever the song is because it allows. people to choose what's best for the. song because they're going to get paid. either way so they might say this. doesn't need any drums on it but I'll. still get paid for drumming so I don't. need to put drums on it does that make. sense it makes perfect sense um and I'm. down with it except for the payment. thing I do my best to screw the people. around me I can see that from the from. the threadbear Footwear I I keep saying. that's my name up on the Marquee and um. then I hand them a a can of uh old Bean.

and they can have that no it is first of. all I think that's very admirable but. it's also it's smart because it. means I think there are bands and You2. comes to mind that have endured for a. very long time because there's a. communal sense in the band and I think. that helps a band last longer I think. you two have probably have a slightly. different but as powerful or more. powerful democracy because they I think. they write slightly differently them and. RM were the two that we look to in terms.

of how you keep the band together yeah. by sharing credit and money and that's. really proved to be true it's funny your. job starts out to make music and then. this other job comes along and some. people can do it and some can't and in. your case obviously you you You're great. at it but the stage work of doing a. massive concert the things all those. skills are not discussed in the in the. entire process of you learning to play. music and play music with your friends.

and write these songs there's no. discussion or thought about okay when. we're playing the arena when we're. playing the Super Bowl how do we put. this across that. takes all of these skills that a lot of. people who could get to the point that. you were at musically would say oh I. can't do that but you are very Adept at. it and I think that's a whole other. skill set well first of all thanks Conan. I I don't know how to answer or. something like that in terms of adep.

itude is that the right word aptitude. okay keep that. in uh yeah I I this is another place. where I feel that we've leaned into. being ourselves with no fear of. embarrassment because there's no way I'm. as Adept on stage as Beyonce or Mick. Jagger uh but I'm definitely the best at. being me right so that you can only kind. of learn by doing yes and by loving and.

I guess what I'm saying is Chris you put. on a show yeah we do you and and you and. and and and the rest of the guys you put. on a show but you are uh you know. burning incredible amount of calories uh. there's there's a there's a huge you're. giving of yourself and you're also. playing to a massive massive uh group of. people and a lot of thought goes into. the live show because it it seems very. important to you and the guys that.

everybody feel and be part of every. moment yeah definitely I was thinking. the other day that a lot of the things. that we're really good at as a band are. not um categories that get bands get. measured by mhm so we might not be the. best this or that or in the top 100 this. or that magazine whatever but there are. some things that we really care about. that we're just never assessed for and. the main thing we care about is that. interaction and communication partly for.

our own sake as humans wanting to feel. alive and yeah not so alone and sort of. sing together and feel that. positivity and partly for our audience. so that they can have a great time more. so than ever that's our. priority um so I forget what the. question was I'm so sorry I asked you. how the first world war started yeah. well a bit like that.