Quotes from Richard Ashcroft

I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they get.

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

You have to build yourself up a bit. You have to believe in yourself, because not that many other people will, you know?

What happened in the '70s was albums and concerts began making a hell of a lot more money, and then the suits got involved.

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?

The mainstream consumed our culture.

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

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

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.

If you really, truly believe in something, you're on fire, and your tongue rolls at the same pace.

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

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.