'Paradise' hitmakers Coldplay are enjoying amazing success at the moment, but frontman Chris Martin has revealed that he still struggles with melancholy. 

Speaking to Britain's The Guardian newspaper, he explained that the world at the moment is going through a really dark period and it's so easy to be exposed to things that will depress you:

“Well, it’s a state of mind. If you want to be depressed every day, there’s plenty of material. The world is crazy. Even today, I’m like, why has some guy walked into a nightclub in Orlando and – what is the possible meaning of that? Like I’m preaching to myself, trust in the universe, and then that happens…” 

Martin added: “I don’t want to go through the whole of my life feeling shitty about myself. Because it’s not making anyone happy. My philosophy at the moment is that I’m great – and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask."

"That’s really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.” We laugh a bit – he knows it sounds faintly silly. But if he sticks to that frame of mind, “then I don’t have to feel threatened by any other bands. I enjoy it a lot more”.

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