Chris Martin Quotes

My stuff lives in Nashville but I live wherever my children are.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during and after. It's been great. I never would have done it any other way. I wasn't gonna miss raising my kids. There was no way that was gonna happen.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.

I'm not cut out for that life; for sharing my life. Whether it's getting married, or having kids. That too drastically changes your life. Everything important to you becomes less important, because the child gains utmost importance.

I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.

My goal first and foremost when I walk into that boxing ring is to get home safe to my missus and three children, because they're all in life that need me, and they really do need me.

Family's number one; just, that's flat out it, and I think a lot of people, when they're put in a certain position, will come to that conclusion, and you'll just do whatever.