Transcript: Chris Martin and Coldplay

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CHRIS BATH: Coldplay is about to conquer the world again. There's a real buzz about their new album, Ghost Stories, not least because it was written from the heart - written when Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow were breaking up. Out of that pain came something magic.

CHRIS/WILL: Hi, I'm Chris. Him Will. Him Will! (LAUGHS) (JAMAICAN ACCENT) You're watching Sunday Night here on Seven. I be watching Sunday Night! I be watching! (POSH BRITISH ACCENT) Do watch. Be watching. (MOCK AUSTRALIAN ACCENT) Now look here. It's (BLEEP!) Chris and (BLEEP!) Will from Coldplay And we'll be watching Sunday Night, that's the name of the show, Right. Here on Seven.

CHRIS MARTIN: (PHONE RINGS) I'm so sorry. Is that your teacher again? No, it'll be Paul McCartney. Brilliant. Hello? Yeah, I do like the Beatles. (LAUGHS) It wasn't Paul McCartney. Um, where were we?

CHRIS MARTIN: Ever since I was about 12, the sight of microphones and dark venues and people plugging things in gets me really thrilled. Whilst it might not be perceived as cool to be really enthused that people show up to hear your music, we don't really give a (BLEEP!). We really love that. And it's exciting, you know. It's exciting when you're 15 and you throw a party and they come, so imagine what it's like on a daily basis to have 20,000 people coming in here. It's crazy.

CHRIS MARTIN: I did make a decision to just tell the truth. I just felt like, "Well, I am not going to be scared of saying anything." I don't want to sing anything I don't really mean.

CHRIS MARTIN: We tried to make a record that is a journey of, um, learning about unconditional love, good and bad. (LAUGHS) Rewind! We're not really a rock-and-roll band, we're not really a ska band, we're not really a death metal band but it's hard to categorise - we probably don't represent any one sphere.

CHRIS MARTIN: This is actually incredibly fun for us to play for such a nice, small group of people...

WILL CHAMPION: The majority of the time, it's Chris who will come into the studio with a song or a handful of songs.

CHRIS MARTIN: Bagful.

WILL CHAMPION: Yeah, or a melody or sometimes it's a complete song and we listen to it and we go, "That is fabulous. We don't want to touch it." We might just add this or that and that's it.

CHRIS MARTIN: Sometimes you just say, "We don't want to touch it, it's too... "It's either fabulous, we don't want to touch it, "or we don't want to touch it with a barge pole." I get more barge poles than fabulouses, but that's ok, that's what being in the band is.

CLIP/ EXTRAS: Chris! Hi, hello. How are you? What's this for today? It's for people in the Third World who don't have clean drink. This screen - you going to project anything on there? Oh, we don't know yet. Not quite sure. OK. We have an album out, greatest hits. Maybe just put a picture of the album cover on it. Oh... Just simple. I think if we're going to project anything, we'll show sort of pictures of people dying because of the lack of clean water. Could they be holding the album? Not, really, no, I think that might be a bit inappropriate. Can we get on with this? I've got to AIDS and Alzheimer's and land mines this afternoon and I want to get back for Deal Or No Deal. Plus Gwyneth's making drumsticks.

CHRIS MARTIN: It's a great joy, and it's a great blessing and a privilege. I think, in life, everyone needs to be broken in some way. Although it starts off seeming like a heart-break record, it's not. It's actually a joyful realisation that you can't escape what life is going to throw at you, so just, you know, just enjoy it. (CHUCKLES)

WILL CHAMPION: I felt incredibly privileged, to be honest, that the level of, kind of, trust implied by the honesty and the emotion of the lyrics, I definitely felt a kind of - I want to do it justice because I know how important what Chris is talking about is to him. So, I think, yeah, I felt very honoured.

CHRIS MARTIN: If you don't open yourself up, you can't appreciate the wonder outside. So you can be with someone very wonderful and not - and because of your own issues... ..I don't want to get too personal. Because of your own issues, you can not let that be celebrated in the right way.

GUY BERRYMAN: It was obviously very real and very raw, and I felt that he was perhaps exposing himself too much. But, actually, when you think about it, it's probably the bravest thing that you can do.

CHRIS MARTIN: Things have happened to me in my life where I turn to that as a way of making sense of things. I think that music is in everybody. That's why we all love it. I know I'm the one that is the frontman and the one that's on the magazines and stuff but of everything we've been blessed with, what we constantly come back to is this relationship.

CHRIS MARTIN: From the very first day that we met, we were always trying to impress each other and there is no-one I want to get approval from more than my, you know, my band mates. Between you and me and all the people that are listening to us, I would say I'm very, very proud of our gang.