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People take songs so literally.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
People
Song
Literally
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I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Groups
Coldplay
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I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Written
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I think I do better when things are a little tougher.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Littles
Thinking
Tougher
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It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Expression
Lines
Mean
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I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Adversity
Thinking
Thrive
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It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Amaze
Ceases
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I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Enjoy Life
Enjoyed
Way
Life I Am Live
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The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Giving Up
Heart
Lonely
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I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Romantic
Faces
Mind
Your Smile
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Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Opportunity
Albums
Doing Me
Album
Provided
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I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Plans
Prior
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I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Loses
Nothing To Lose
Prove
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Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Mind
People
Trying
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But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Botox
Fun
Giving
Having Fun
Song
Injections
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I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Guy
Piano
Song
Chapter
Love Who Want
Love Songs
Sings
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I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Apart
Batch
Laid
Pick
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But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Success
Congratulations
Forever
Lock
Vein
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In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Past
Pressure
Records
Carrying
In The Past
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I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Disc
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But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Died
Remembered
Importantly
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I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Audience
Bruised
Gone
Realizing
Ribs
Stage
Worst
Realize
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I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Bored
Complete Freedom
Way
Complete
Pigeonholed
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And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Welcome
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It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Luther
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When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Easy
Interest
Way
Find
Too
Complicate
Lose
Ways
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I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Decided
New Songs
Play
Song
Day Job
Wait
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I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
People
Song
Totally
Love Song People
Intended
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I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
People
Thinking
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To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Kindness
Heaven
Loss
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Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Heart
Inspirational Love
Long Distance Relationship
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So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Bunch
Enemy
Song
Writing
Years
Recorded
Result
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My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Doe
Two
Album
Tour
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The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
People
Reflection
Song
Tricky
Assume
The Only Thing
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Too caught up in me to see, I'm holding a fortune that heaven has given to me. I'll try and show you each and every way I can, now and forever, I will be your man.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Relationship
Men
Forever
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One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Bunch
Cheese
Cheesy
Light
Light Bulb
One Time
Plant
Rooms
Stinky
Bulb
Check
Mattress
Ordered
Robert
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As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Celebrate
Luther
Standing
Winning
Award
Receive
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I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
Richard Marx / Singer-Songwriter
Depression
Heartache
Periods
Profound
Sadness
Writing
Me People Happy
Happiest
Happiest People
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