Richard Marx Quotes
"I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Enemy)
"I think I do better when things are a little tougher."
- Richard Marx
"I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Adversity, Saying)
"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Music)
"I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Nothing, Now)
"I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?"
- Richard Marx
(Related: Freedom)
"But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Fun, Giving, Songs)
"I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about."
- Richard Marx
(Related: People, Depression, Sadness)
"I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone."
- Richard Marx
"I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Songs)
"I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Love, Songs, Want)
"I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Day, Fans, Job, Play, Songs)
"Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Opportunity)
"I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay."
- Richard Marx
"But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Dad)
"And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Fans, Party)
"But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Business, Success, Style)
"People take songs so literally."
- Richard Marx
(Related: People, Songs)
"When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Interest)
"It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Funny, Songs)
"So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Enemy, Result, Songs, Writing, Years)
"I've never written a song that I thought was a hit."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Thought, Song)
"One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Time, Light)
"My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Will)
"As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Winning, Nothing, Right, Song)
"It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Living)
"In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Past, Pressure)
"I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Life, Now)
"The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now."
- Richard Marx
(Related: People, Feeling, Now, Reflection, Song)