Quotes for All
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
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
I’m intrigued by all that, by religions, I’m intrigued by Jesus Christ. It’s all fascinating. 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 picks up a bit of this and a bit of that. I was confirmed a Christian when I was a kid purely because I wanted a piece of jewelry, so I don’t know … Read more
Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye. Richard Ashcroft
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 … Read more
What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music? Richard Ashcroft
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
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 and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there’s only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn’t believe in. … Read more
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