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Richard Marx
American
Musician
About the author
I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Love
#People
#Wrong
#Song
I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Enemy
I think I do better when things are a little tougher.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Saying
#Adversity
I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Music
I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Now
#Nothing
I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Freedom
But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Fun
#Giving
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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Songs
I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Want
#Songs
#Love
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,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Fans
#Day
#Play
#Job
Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Opportunity
I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Fans
#Party
But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Style
#Success
#Business
People take songs so literally.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Songs
#People
When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Interest
It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Funny
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,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Enemy
#Years
#Result
#Writing
I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Right
#Nothing
#Song
#Winning
It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Living
In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Past
#Pressure
I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.
Richard Marx,
American
Musician
#Now
#Life
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,
American
Musician
#Now
#People
#Feeling
#Song
#Reflection