Quotes by Richard Marx

• I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
• I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
• I think I do better when things are a little tougher.
• I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.
• I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.
• I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.
• I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
• But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older 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.
• I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
• I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.
• I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
• 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.
• I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.
• But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
• And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.
• But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
• People take songs so literally.
• When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
• It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
• 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.
• I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
• 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.
• 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.
• It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
• In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
• I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am 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.