Explore Quotes by Richard Marx

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

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.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.

People take songs so literally.

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

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.

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

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.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

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.

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.

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.