Biografie

Learned how to sing the lyrics to his song "The Scientist" in reverse for the music video, so that the final product would show his body in reverse while he sang the lyrics normally.

Wrote the song "Fix You" for his wife Gwyneth Paltrow.

Wrote a song for the late Johnny Cash, the song is called "Til Kingdom Come".

He has said that he considers The Verve's song, "Bittersweet Symphony", to be probably the best song ever written and the band's singer, Richard Ashcroft, to be the greatest singer of all time.

Simon Pegg is the godfather of his daughter, Apple Martin.

Awards are essentially nonsense, but we're all going to die when George Bush (George W. Bush) has his way - it's good to go out with a bang.

People like Richard Ashcroft and Morrissey (Morrissey) are brilliant but when there's a band there's a little bit of spark there; a bit of tension maybe that makes it work.

Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Brad Pitt, but it'll do. Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

It's hard for us sometimes because we are English and we do not like to admit that we think we are great.

[on EMI] Deadlines mean nothing to us. We'll sink the whole company if we have to.