Chris Martin revealed today that music was \u2018a life-saver\u2019 after his split from Gwyneth Paltrow earlier this year.\nThe Coldplay frontman, 37, said he was able to channel his \u201cbad feeling\u201d into writing new album Ghost Stories.
\nHe told Steve Wright\u2019s Big Show on Radio 2: \u201cYou can choose your paths in life, I find, when you get to a point where you\u2019re like \u2018I could either jump off a bridge or I could try and turn this around\u2019.
\n\u201cI\u2019m sure lots of people have that in much harder instances. You just find the right tools. \u201cI feel so grateful. Especially over the last couple of years, music has been alchemising. \u201cGoing through something difficult in your life, music for me is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out. That\u2019s always what I\u2019m doing in the middle of the night.\u201d
\nWhen Steve asked the music star how he rose above his personal problems, the dad-of-two explained that writing Ghost Stories was a cathartic experience. \u201cIt\u2019s so important for me that album, it hasn\u2019t really crossed my mind what it means for anyone else. Because I needed it.\u201d
\nHe also told Wright: \u201cI\u2019m very grateful to be here. Every day is a blessing. That\u2019s how I feel.\u201d Martin and Paltrow announced their separation in March with a statement in which they explained they were \u201cconsciously uncoupling\u201d.
\nPaltrow has a love of health food and is a former devotee of macrobiotic diets.
\nLast week Chris was seen buying huge ice-slush drinks for their two children Apple, nine, and eight-year-old Moses while on a day out in Santa Monica. Devon-born Chris, who last night performed with the band at London\u2019s Albert Hall, laughed that he had eaten seven scones when he arrived back in the UK from America.
\nHe also revealed that he\u2019d given up on vegetarianism, saying that he now eats meat. \u201cI\u2019d only eat something that I think I could kill,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d kill a fish. Not a giraffe.\u201d
\nBut Martin, 37, has not given up on his support for good causes. He urged more businesses to routinely give to charity, saying: \u201cWhen I got pocket money as a kid, my mum said you should give 10 per cent away, and so we just keep that rule. \u201cI don\u2019t think it is corny at all, I think it would be amazing if all companies did that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"