Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
Will Champion
In the same way that we had loads of songs ready when we went in to do the last record and the record before, we're at that stage now where we've got songs. I think they will need a lot of work, we need to learn how to play them. We've learnt from mistakes on the last record in terms of the idea that it's most important for us to play the songs together and to have them as live as possible.
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We're trying to find somewhere we can set up and work. In all these years we haven't got a HQ, our own studio or anything like that. We want somewhere that we can sort of hole up and see what happens.
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Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
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At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.
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A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
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The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
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I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
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We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.
Optimism is the key.
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