Chris Martin: 'Music Saved My Life After Gwyneth Split'

Chris Martin has described music as a "life-saver" force in the wake of his break-up with wife Gwyneth Paltrow.

The Coldplay star opened up about the way he dealt with the split during an interview on Radio 2 yesterday.

"You can choose your paths in life, I find, when you get to a point where you're like, 'I could either jump off a bridge or I could try and turn this around'. I'm sure lots of people have that in much harder instances. You just find the right tools," he told Steve Wright's Big Show.

"I feel so grateful. Especially over the last couple of years, music has been alchemising.

"Going through something difficult in your life, music for me is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out. That's always what I'm doing in the middle of the night. I'm very grateful to be here. Every day is a blessing. That's how I feel."

And he also revealed that he'd relapsed to meat since he and Gwynnie "consciously uncoupled".

"I'd only eat something that I think I could kill," he said. "I'd kill a fish. Not a giraffe."