Quotes from Richard Marx

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

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.

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

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.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

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.

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

People take songs so literally.

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.