I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than…

- Richard Ashcroft

What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

- Richard Ashcroft

I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too muc…

- Richard Ashcroft

Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.

- Richard Ashcroft

I can't pin myself on any fixed religion, really. I'm just one of those sad, early-century people who just drifts around and picks up a bit of this a…

- Richard Ashcroft

Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on more than anything. I'm actually trying to…

- Richard Ashcroft

To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but the…

- Richard Ashcroft

I'm intrigued by all that, by religions, I'm intrigued by Jesus Christ. It's all fascinating.

- Richard Ashcroft

When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, y…

- Richard Ashcroft