Coldplay singer Chris Martin has a Hollywood wife - but don't let that fool you into thinking he's a playboy.

 

Martin - who has two kids with Gwyneth Paltrow - says a playboy lifestyle couldn't be further from the band's mind.

 

"At a time when we could just buy speedboats, we are really fired up about trying to do something," Chris says. "We have had three albums now, sold lots of records, we've taken a lot of shit ... and played to lots of intelligent people. Now it is time to do something great."

 

As one of the world's biggest rock outfits, Coldplay have sold 20 million albums worldwide, won four Grammys and four Brit Awards. But being one of the world's biggest has its pressures and has taken its toll on the band made up of Chris, guitarist Jon Buckland, bass player Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion.

 

"We had some things that I am not sure a small band should go through," Chris says. "I don't think it is healthy to be caught up with share prices and quarterly (earnings) and all that stuff. We had so many opinions thrown our way by people that we worked with that we sort of lost sight at the very end."

 

Regardless of whether or not Coldplay release another album, the group won't put anything out for the sake of it. "We would only release a record which we are extremely happy with," bass player Guy says. "We might go into the studio and not be able to do anything." Coldplay's sound has polarised critics for years - some hating their music while others love it.

 

Not surprisingly, critics were split on Coldplay's latest album X&Y.

 

"We have definitely had a backlash in certain places but we have survived it," Chris says. "We have gone through all of the business pressure of it, the commercial pressure of it and everyone having an opinion."

 

Being married to a Hollywood superstar means he has a brighter spotlight on him than his bandmates - but that doesn't stop him writing about matters of the heart. He wrote Fix You for his wife after her father died. It is the fiercely personal nature of Coldplay's music that is its appeal. And as their lives keep changing, so will their music.

 

"We are very proud of those songs," Chris says. "It will be different again in a year - you have got to keep changing."

 

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz

i really hope it will stay that way...i don't like when coldplay is always in the newspapper exept it't about the music