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Of course, fatherhood fundamentally changes a lot of your life, but it enriches you, too.Collection: Richard
We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow our minds with music. I know that I want to make a record that does that yet a record that, if it was played on the radio at twelve in the afternoon, the guy making the wall - the guy cleaning the motorway - he's got a melody to hang on.Collection: Richard
I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.Collection: Richard
I lost a good friend a few years ago, and it happened quite suddenly. Any event like that leaves you with questions. Would a phone call have made a difference? Did the person know that you were there for them?Collection: Richard
If you start shaping everything you do trying to be in step with whatever is going on in the world, you're often out of step by the time people hear it. It's a bit like fashion.Collection: Richard
Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.Collection: Richard
Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden we're all happily sailing at the same pace as we were before.Collection: Richard
It's difficult to be the spokesperson for something that internally is falling apart. That's a tremendous amount of pressure to put on one person, to be the guy who gives all the quotes, all the interviews.Collection: Richard
I've got kids now; it changes you radically.Collection: Richard
The Richard Ashcroft of 1992 would have struggled to imagine the path my life has taken - he would be amazed at the changes in my song writing.Collection: Richard
You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is.Collection: Richard
I think I was born to be a songwriter.Collection: Richard
I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person, and I could easily melt away into the background.Collection: Richard
Life is about unforgettable and transcendent moments, isn't it? The point of music is to get the moment.Collection: Richard
Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there's no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.Collection: Richard
You can find the greatest sound of all time, and someone's going to squash it down to a tiny little earphone anyway or play it through the computer, and that is a big thing people have to think about now.Collection: Richard
What happened in the '70s was albums and concerts began making a hell of a lot more money, and then the suits got involved.Collection: Richard
If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see, and it is the same with my music. I've got so many pieces of music and songs waiting to be heard.Collection: Richard
I've got a letter from the Dalai Lama at home.Collection: Richard
Without music and creativity, I'd need other forms of therapy. But for me, the life process is the process of healing yourself. 'Break the Night' is about offering hope to people, about breaking through the darkness.Collection: Richard
I probably suffered from a narcissistic disorder in some way.Collection: Richard
When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with me: that idea, that ambition, to draw off the roots of music but take it somewhere fresh.Collection: Richard
Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.Collection: Richard
You have to build yourself up a bit. You have to believe in yourself, because not that many other people will, you know?Collection: Richard
We're the most talented musical island ever.Collection: Richard
The Grime guys have kind of rewritten the blueprint for people as far as creativity, songwriting, ownership, doing your own videos... So they're sending out a real positive message I think to people, that you can do it yourself in a punk way, and you can still potentially be successful and get to people.Collection: Richard
I was always going to be vulnerable when I left the Verve. It was a hardening experience for me. People saw me stripped down and decided to have their shot. I suppose they wanted to take me down a peg.Collection: Richard
We all have our daily prescription of yoga, football, religion, or whatever gets us through that day. My thing is music. It's the only thing that gives me a sense of calm and balance. It's the thing I know I'm good at.Collection: Richard
You know, rock n' roll's an old carcass: it's one big cliche. It's so difficult to do anything that has any sense of freshness or vitality or meaning. But that's what I'm trying to do, to give it new meaning.Collection: Richard
I am a family man, and I have children.Collection: Richard
I'm a strong person, but every man has his limits.Collection: Richard
Glasgow Barrowlands is the greatest concert venue in the world.Collection: Richard
My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that have been repressed by life, their job, situation - that's what I do.Collection: Richard
The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about.Collection: Richard
George Best was my idol. I got a chance to meet him once.Collection: Richard
The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance.Collection: Richard
There's lots of people I'd love to work with.Collection: Richard
The mad thing is, most of my life, when I'm not in a dark mood, it's been humour that's got me through. The only way to get through this business is by laughing.Collection: Richard
I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they get.Collection: Richard
Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.Collection: Richard
The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology.Collection: Richard
Coining a term is not the same as creating a field!Collection: Richard
You go out on the practice range, and something kind of clicks, and you start hitting the ball very crisply. And you're sure that you've found it, the holy grail - that all you have to do is hold your hand in a certain way. Then you go out on the golf course, and it's completely disappeared.Collection: Richard
For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.Collection: Richard
I have an agent, John Brockman, who is an agent to many academic authors like Dan Gilbert and Steven Pinker, and he's very good at conning academics into writing books. He pulled this trick on me.Collection: Richard
There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.Collection: Richard
Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.Collection: Richard
In some ways, the finding that financial education doesn't provide long-term payoffs is hardly surprising. After all, how much do you remember from your high school chemistry class? Unless you use chemistry at work, you probably don't recall much about ionic bonding.Collection: Richard
High school seniors should receive help in how to think about a student loan and how to make sure that the education bought with the loan offers good prospects for repayment.Collection: Richard
Arthur Laffer's idea, that lowering taxes could increase revenues, was logically correct. If tax rates are high enough, then people will go to such lengths to avoid them that cutting taxes can increase revenues. What he was wrong about was in thinking that income tax rates were already so high in the 1970s that cutting them would raise revenues.Collection: Richard