Richard Ashcroft Quotes

#1. 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 much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination.

Richard Ashcroft

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

Richard Ashcroft

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

Richard Ashcroft

#4. 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 go back from where I was running from ... the more essential things that I was ignoring.

Richard Ashcroft

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

Richard Ashcroft

#6. 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 the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.

Richard Ashcroft

#7. 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 they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.

Richard Ashcroft

#8. Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.

Richard Ashcroft