96 Quotes by Richard Thompson

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.