Richard Marx Quotes

Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I've never really been somebody that thinks too much about what I've done.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

I'm like a pretty deep dude.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I am not very introspective.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I'm an introspective dude.

I've always internalized things.

I don't interest myself that much.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.