Richard Ashcroft Quotes

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

My life is my message.

Ever since I managed with guaranteed contracts and all the media, you know, you can get distracted by fame and fortune. Your values can get distorted. And the way you break through is, you just keep it personal and keep it simple and basic.

Starting clean is a theme for me - starting fresh and understanding what's important about life.

I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.

I've always kept it very simple. I'm a big believer that basics stay the same for all the formats.

I think of myself as still being about five. Maybe that's why my Twitter picture is of me at five. That's how I feel. I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else. I'm just still trying to figure it all out about myself.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm a chronicler. I speak about us and I speak about myself.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.