Chris Martin has said he is inspired by Kanye West’s confidence.

The Coldplay frontman said the rapper’s innovative techniques made him want to write better music.

And he said he admired the fact that West ignores his critics.

He said: “That’s what I really admire about Kanye. Because for all the flak he gets, I feel so inspired by his confidence.

“He knows that there’s been all this history of music, but he still believes he can do something that no one else has done.

“That, for me, is a liberating idea.”

Martin, 32, who appeared in Kanye’s Homecoming video, said the band still wanted to write new music – but they may take a break from performing gigs.

He told a US newspaper: “We spend an awful lot of time creating. Maybe it’s because we’re about to turn 33, but I just feel hungry to write all the time.

“I think at the end of this tour, we may not tour for a while. We may put out a record without quite so much fanfare.

“I think the next one will be quite stripped-down and based upon this story idea which I can’t talk about because it might be bad.”

The pair of famous rockers has recently teamed up in order to record a song that mocks Live Aid. The song will be included on Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming movie “Bruno”. A source said the following about the recording at which both Chris Martin and Bono participated: “Chris Martin was laughing throughout the recording and only just managed to get his lines out. ‘Bruno…’ promises to be the funniest and most outrageous film this year and in it Sacha’s character releases a brilliantly cheesy but subversive single – ‘Dove Of Peace’ – which mocks the likes of Band Aid. It runs close to the bone but it’s very tongue-in-cheek.” So the prophetic day when Bono and Chris Martin would team up finally came. And moreover, they’re doing it to mock a charity organization. It’s probably not that big a deal for Chris Martin, but Bono really is going off the rail a bit with this one. The end must be nigh.