Richard Price Quotes

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

I am the worst judge of my books.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

There is no subject on which there is a greater habitual difference of judgment between a man judging for himself, and the same man judging for other people.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

I don't like to talk about my work. People should see my work and form their opinion based on that, not because of something I said.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

I can never look at anything I do subjectively - whether it's a Stone Sour record or a Slipknot record, I can never really have my own opinion of it, 'cos in my opinion it's all crap.

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

I cannot watch my performance as an audience because whenever I watch anything that I am a part of, I watch critically.

I'm supposed to be neutral when I do my job. But I'm a fan and I have my favorites.

I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song.

People believe that criticism should be objective, whatever that means, but I really don't understand what people mean by that. I guess if you're doing sonata-allegro procedure analysis, you can be objective for a page or two. But in pop? Really hard.