I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see,… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
People wanted me to become this cliched Keith Richards, Iggy Pop character. I wasn't expected to marry a beautiful wife and have… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music? — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Just because something's kinda indie and whatever and only a few people know it, it doesn't give it more authenticity over Rihanna's… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I was always going to be vulnerable when I left the Verve. It was a hardening experience for me. People saw me… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I've got a talent, and people enjoy my songs, people love my songs; why stop? — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
You can find the greatest sound of all time, and someone's going to squash it down to a tiny little earphone anyway… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
If you judge people by what they've done in the past, you're wrong. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I've had tons of incredible conversations with people who say they got married or buried relatives to my songs. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
There's a track called 'Why Not Nothing' about how the world's turning so conservative and so religious at the same time. I think it's… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
You look at the Blur comeback, it was so smooth - so smooth - compared to The Verve. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person, and I could easily melt away into the background. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
