Richard King Quotes

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

I am like a common man who is dictated by what I like and I sometimes feel that if something good, I should produce it.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

The will of man is his happiness.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.