Personal Life
Martin is married to Gwyneth Paltrow. The couple married on 5 December 2003. Their daughter, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, was born on 14 May 2004 in London. Their second child, Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, was born on 8 April 2006 in New York City. Simon Pegg and Martin's bandmate Jonny Buckland are Apple's godfathers. Martin is a longtime friend of Pegg, having met him in 2001, and appears in one of Pegg's movies,Shaun of the Dead, along with Buckland.
Martin does not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. PETA declared him to be the World's Sexiest Vegetarian in 2005.
Martin was raised as a Catholic but has since lapsed. In a 2005 Rolling Stone magazine interview, Martin said of his religious views: "I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?" In the same interview he spoke of going through a period of spiritual confusion, stating "I went through a weird patch, starting when I was about sixteen to twenty-two, of getting God, religion, superstition, judgement all confused". However, in a 2008 interview he stated:
"I'm always trying to work out what 'He' or 'She' is. I don't know if it's Allah or Jesus or Mohammed or Zeus. But I'd go for Zeus."Following the said interview, he released a text message declaring himself an "all-theist", a word of his invention meaning that he believes in "everything".
Martin often suffers from insomnia and has undergone sleep therapy. He has said in interviews that ideas for songs most often come to him at night, and that he also often has nightmares about performances going wrong.
Martin is a supporter of the Liberal Democrats, a centre-left political party.
In a 2012 interview with the British tabloid Daily Mail, Martin revealed that he has had tinnitus for the past ten years and he developed it from listening to loud music when he was a teenager. He brings strong awareness to this condition and warns youngsters to avoid the same fate, while also protecting his own children's hearing with headphones.
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