Richard Ashcroft

Music is power.

— Richard Ashcroft

I love my cracked eyes.

— Richard Ashcroft

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

— Richard Ashcroft

There's lots of people I'd love to work with.

— Richard Ashcroft

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

— Richard Ashcroft

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

— Richard Ashcroft

I have never had a bad review off a good-looking person.

— Richard Ashcroft

I've got a letter from the Dalai Lama at home.

— Richard Ashcroft

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

— Richard Ashcroft

People do get out of my way when I'm walking to the shops.

— Richard Ashcroft

I've had tons of incredible conversations with people who say they got married or buried relatives to my songs.

— Richard Ashcroft

Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.

— Richard Ashcroft

Don't expect me to be some indie schmindie embarrassed about my success.

— Richard Ashcroft

Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts.

— Richard Ashcroft

The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance.

— Richard Ashcroft

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

— Richard Ashcroft

The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised.

— Richard Ashcroft

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

— Richard Ashcroft

I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music…

— Richard Ashcroft

I'm very lucky that I can walk on the stage before anyone in the world. And that's the thing: you've got to…

— Richard Ashcroft

My thing is, I've yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression.

— Richard Ashcroft

I've always felt like an outsider in this industry, but that sense of community - that sense of belonging with your fans…

— Richard Ashcroft

Hearing 'This Is How It Feels' on the radio was an amazing feeling, like starting again. But I believe that, in the…

— Richard Ashcroft

Without music and creativity, I'd need other forms of therapy. But for me, the life process is the process of healing yourself.…

— Richard Ashcroft

If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see,…

— Richard Ashcroft

Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on…

— Richard Ashcroft

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…

— Richard Ashcroft

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

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

The Grime guys have kind of rewritten the blueprint for people as far as creativity, songwriting, ownership, doing your own videos... So…

— Richard Ashcroft

We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow…

— Richard Ashcroft

At The Verve's first-ever gig, I said that we were gonna blow this local band off the stage. It was only in…

— Richard Ashcroft

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

With 'Break The Night,' each verse is saying, 'Nothing's going right today; nothing ever does.' It's about that kind of repetition, it's…

— Richard Ashcroft

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

— Richard Ashcroft

I'm a strong person, but every man has his limits.

— Richard Ashcroft

I've got kids now; it changes you radically.

— Richard Ashcroft

I want to entertain and inspire.

— Richard Ashcroft

I don't believe in a new-age movement; I'm not a hippy.

— Richard Ashcroft

We never had a stylist, so I always wore my own clothes.

— Richard Ashcroft