1 00:00:10,204 --> 00:00:13,484 Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point 2 00:00:13,524 --> 00:00:15,204 Speaker 1: seven podcasts. 3 00:00:14,604 --> 00:00:17,724 Speaker 2: Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app. 4 00:00:19,084 --> 00:00:21,004 Speaker 3: And Amanda jam Nation. 5 00:00:21,244 --> 00:00:23,403 Speaker 1: Who doesn't love Richard Marx. He has brought us some 6 00:00:23,444 --> 00:00:25,884 Speaker 1: of the biggest hits of the eighties and the nineties, 7 00:00:25,924 --> 00:00:28,364 Speaker 1: and he's never one to stop. He's just released a 8 00:00:28,444 --> 00:00:31,644 Speaker 1: new single, Magic Hour, which he coded with Black Daisy 9 00:00:34,244 --> 00:00:40,243 Speaker 1: or I Like It but Jim, and he's about to 10 00:00:40,284 --> 00:00:43,604 Speaker 1: grace our screens as of this weekend for the voice 11 00:00:43,764 --> 00:00:44,484 Speaker 1: Richard Marx. 12 00:00:44,564 --> 00:00:47,123 Speaker 3: Hello, how are you guys? 13 00:00:47,244 --> 00:00:49,044 Speaker 2: We are so good, very well. 14 00:00:49,084 --> 00:00:51,763 Speaker 1: It was nice to see you Sunday night at the Logis. 15 00:00:51,844 --> 00:00:54,044 Speaker 1: It's a long and strange night for people who. 16 00:00:53,884 --> 00:00:55,124 Speaker 3: Know what's going on. 17 00:00:55,244 --> 00:00:56,964 Speaker 1: What did you make of it? 18 00:00:58,964 --> 00:01:02,964 Speaker 3: That's the perfect description. Somebody asked me the other day, 19 00:01:03,044 --> 00:01:04,804 Speaker 3: how did I enjoy it? And I said, well, I 20 00:01:04,804 --> 00:01:06,364 Speaker 3: spent a week at the Logis that time. 21 00:01:09,404 --> 00:01:12,124 Speaker 2: It's it just goes for a long time. 22 00:01:13,564 --> 00:01:15,284 Speaker 3: It's going, it just keeps going. 23 00:01:15,324 --> 00:01:17,684 Speaker 2: We were talking a man and I were just talking before. 24 00:01:17,724 --> 00:01:20,284 Speaker 2: There's two types of Richard Marx. There's it. You've got 25 00:01:20,364 --> 00:01:26,923 Speaker 2: your your Rocky Marx, which we love Rocky marks, and 26 00:01:26,964 --> 00:01:27,604 Speaker 2: then you got. 27 00:01:27,404 --> 00:01:34,884 Speaker 4: Your Balladie marks where sensitive sensitive marks And now you've 28 00:01:34,884 --> 00:01:41,484 Speaker 4: got your tango Marx, Which Marx are you? 29 00:01:42,444 --> 00:01:45,804 Speaker 3: Just when you thought you could put a label on me? Yeah, 30 00:01:46,764 --> 00:01:48,484 Speaker 3: now you can't. I'm an enigma. 31 00:01:48,924 --> 00:01:52,324 Speaker 1: You are an enigma and wrapped in a contradiction and 32 00:01:52,404 --> 00:01:55,564 Speaker 1: you rap that's an eggs and uh. And you wrote 33 00:01:55,564 --> 00:01:58,524 Speaker 1: that song with your wife, Daisy. How is the songwriting 34 00:01:58,604 --> 00:02:00,524 Speaker 1: experience with someone you're so close with. 35 00:02:02,084 --> 00:02:04,364 Speaker 3: Well, we've written a few songs together and it's just 36 00:02:04,404 --> 00:02:07,444 Speaker 3: the most organic fun. Because she's not a songwriter. She'd 37 00:02:07,484 --> 00:02:09,764 Speaker 3: never written a song before the first song we wrote 38 00:02:09,764 --> 00:02:13,124 Speaker 3: together when we were first dating twelve years ago. She 39 00:02:13,324 --> 00:02:18,844 Speaker 3: just talks. I just get her to say, like storyline 40 00:02:19,043 --> 00:02:21,643 Speaker 3: or if we have a concept for a lyric, I 41 00:02:22,163 --> 00:02:25,644 Speaker 3: just say, don't worry about rhyming, just say phrases and 42 00:02:25,684 --> 00:02:28,163 Speaker 3: I'll make them work. I'll figure out rhymes for them. 43 00:02:28,404 --> 00:02:31,004 Speaker 3: And she's always coming up with like the lines that 44 00:02:31,043 --> 00:02:33,644 Speaker 3: I like the best in the songs that were written together. 45 00:02:34,163 --> 00:02:38,004 Speaker 3: What's interesting is for you guys, perhaps in your audience, 46 00:02:38,564 --> 00:02:41,483 Speaker 3: is that I wrote the music to this song magic 47 00:02:41,524 --> 00:02:44,724 Speaker 3: hour Walking when I'm writing the days of me being 48 00:02:44,724 --> 00:02:46,644 Speaker 3: locked up in a room to write songs those are over. 49 00:02:47,803 --> 00:02:49,844 Speaker 3: I work best and I write best. I'm most creative 50 00:02:49,844 --> 00:02:52,524 Speaker 3: when i'm outside, so I take long hikes or long 51 00:02:52,564 --> 00:02:56,924 Speaker 3: walks outside and then musical ideas and lyrical ideas just flow. 52 00:02:57,444 --> 00:03:00,564 Speaker 3: So I wrote all the music just outside this door 53 00:03:00,684 --> 00:03:03,724 Speaker 3: on a hike, and a couple of weeks later, this 54 00:03:03,764 --> 00:03:07,204 Speaker 3: is the end of last year. Daisy and I found 55 00:03:07,204 --> 00:03:10,604 Speaker 3: ourselves on Lizard Island because I was there in Australia 56 00:03:10,644 --> 00:03:13,404 Speaker 3: for a tour, and so we were laying on the 57 00:03:13,404 --> 00:03:16,524 Speaker 3: beach at Lizard Island and I'm singing in that melody 58 00:03:17,124 --> 00:03:19,044 Speaker 3: and she goes, I love that melody, it's so catchy. 59 00:03:19,043 --> 00:03:20,163 Speaker 3: What's it going to be? And I said, I don't. 60 00:03:20,163 --> 00:03:21,924 Speaker 3: I don't really know what the lyrics going to be yet. 61 00:03:22,043 --> 00:03:24,044 Speaker 3: And we wrote the lyrics together on the beach on 62 00:03:24,204 --> 00:03:26,484 Speaker 3: Lizard Island that after and it took like an hour. 63 00:03:26,684 --> 00:03:27,243 Speaker 3: That was it. 64 00:03:28,084 --> 00:03:30,163 Speaker 1: And a husband who wants his wife to talk more. 65 00:03:30,204 --> 00:03:35,924 Speaker 3: It's such a rare thing. What's that about? Actually there's 66 00:03:35,964 --> 00:03:38,324 Speaker 3: money to be made from it? Well, that is true. 67 00:03:39,404 --> 00:03:41,083 Speaker 2: But you know, when you talk about writers, block of 68 00:03:41,644 --> 00:03:44,364 Speaker 2: wonder this with songwriters, it seems to me that in 69 00:03:44,404 --> 00:03:47,244 Speaker 2: your twenties that's when you're most prolific as a songwriter, 70 00:03:47,803 --> 00:03:50,964 Speaker 2: and then how does it go? You know, where did 71 00:03:50,964 --> 00:03:53,083 Speaker 2: you get to that point where you go, I'm out 72 00:03:53,124 --> 00:03:55,124 Speaker 2: of gas, I can't I can't write anymore. It must 73 00:03:55,164 --> 00:03:58,604 Speaker 2: be it must be frustrating, like you keep coming up 74 00:03:58,604 --> 00:04:01,044 Speaker 2: with stuff. But then you get people that don't like 75 00:04:01,084 --> 00:04:04,364 Speaker 2: your wife, who aren't used to the creative process, and 76 00:04:04,404 --> 00:04:06,564 Speaker 2: they come up with these stuff. They become amused in 77 00:04:06,604 --> 00:04:06,884 Speaker 2: a way. 78 00:04:07,884 --> 00:04:14,084 Speaker 3: Yeah. I have never experienced writer's block, as it's known. Luckily, 79 00:04:14,164 --> 00:04:15,924 Speaker 3: when I was really young, I was just starting out 80 00:04:15,924 --> 00:04:18,404 Speaker 3: as a songwriter. My father who was he was never 81 00:04:18,404 --> 00:04:22,683 Speaker 3: a songwriter, but he wrote jingles and commercials and wrote 82 00:04:22,724 --> 00:04:26,444 Speaker 3: really catchy melodies, and he told me that there was 83 00:04:26,484 --> 00:04:28,484 Speaker 3: no such thing as writer's block, that it was just 84 00:04:28,524 --> 00:04:31,604 Speaker 3: a choice. And I believe that, you know, not to 85 00:04:31,684 --> 00:04:35,404 Speaker 3: be insensitive to people who suffer from writer's block, But 86 00:04:35,564 --> 00:04:38,363 Speaker 3: when I run into songwriters, I go, it's not writer's block. 87 00:04:38,404 --> 00:04:41,524 Speaker 3: There's no such thing. You just have to write. You 88 00:04:41,644 --> 00:04:44,284 Speaker 3: just have to do it. Now. There might come a 89 00:04:44,284 --> 00:04:48,084 Speaker 3: period of time where in the doing it it's just garbage, 90 00:04:48,524 --> 00:04:51,363 Speaker 3: but at some point you're going to write something, even 91 00:04:51,364 --> 00:04:53,404 Speaker 3: if it's four bars of something or a line of 92 00:04:53,484 --> 00:04:55,164 Speaker 3: lyric that you go, well, that's not bad, and then 93 00:04:55,164 --> 00:04:57,644 Speaker 3: you can build on that. But you can't stop writing, 94 00:04:57,684 --> 00:05:00,284 Speaker 3: because that's just the trick your mind plays on you. 95 00:05:00,764 --> 00:05:02,764 Speaker 3: So the only thing for me is that I think 96 00:05:02,764 --> 00:05:05,444 Speaker 3: when you say that you're some prolific in your twenties, 97 00:05:05,684 --> 00:05:07,404 Speaker 3: that's a really good point. I don't know if it's 98 00:05:07,444 --> 00:05:10,404 Speaker 3: that we're prolific where that we're just out to prove 99 00:05:10,444 --> 00:05:15,004 Speaker 3: everything at that point. So it feels more like I 100 00:05:15,124 --> 00:05:17,084 Speaker 3: got to do this and there is no there's no 101 00:05:17,164 --> 00:05:19,484 Speaker 3: time for writer's black. When you're in your twenties, you 102 00:05:19,524 --> 00:05:23,564 Speaker 3: know you've got success to go chase. You know. I've 103 00:05:23,604 --> 00:05:26,204 Speaker 3: just never really suffered from it. When I need to write, 104 00:05:26,404 --> 00:05:29,884 Speaker 3: I write when I'm not in that place. It's totally okay. 105 00:05:29,964 --> 00:05:32,924 Speaker 3: I'm just on my own, just hanging out and enjoying life. 106 00:05:33,004 --> 00:05:35,363 Speaker 1: And I think that's the thing for all the creative outlets. 107 00:05:35,644 --> 00:05:38,764 Speaker 1: It is a choice. There is a discipline to being 108 00:05:38,804 --> 00:05:40,964 Speaker 1: creative and being successful in any field. 109 00:05:40,964 --> 00:05:44,844 Speaker 3: I think, yeah, well, I think that's true with life. 110 00:05:44,884 --> 00:05:48,884 Speaker 3: You know, I'm a real firm believer in the fact 111 00:05:48,884 --> 00:05:51,964 Speaker 3: that your life is dictated by your thoughts. So if 112 00:05:52,004 --> 00:05:54,164 Speaker 3: you think, oh, I can't do that, I'll never be 113 00:05:54,244 --> 00:05:57,204 Speaker 3: able to do that, then you won't. But if you're thinking, 114 00:05:57,404 --> 00:06:00,124 Speaker 3: is I'm going to do that, I will absolutely do that. 115 00:06:01,044 --> 00:06:04,124 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm testament to it. You know, manifestation is real. 116 00:06:04,484 --> 00:06:07,604 Speaker 3: I've manifested every great thing in my life and the 117 00:06:07,644 --> 00:06:09,884 Speaker 3: things that have gone wrong in my life. I kind 118 00:06:09,884 --> 00:06:12,724 Speaker 3: of I think I'm kind of manifested accidentally too. So 119 00:06:12,764 --> 00:06:14,284 Speaker 3: you got to just be careful with your thinking. 120 00:06:14,604 --> 00:06:15,964 Speaker 1: That's a good that's why you're going to be a 121 00:06:16,044 --> 00:06:17,764 Speaker 1: very good coach on the Voice. 122 00:06:17,484 --> 00:06:19,924 Speaker 2: And the Voice and you're up. You've got some got 123 00:06:20,004 --> 00:06:22,044 Speaker 2: Ryan Keating in there, and he's like missed a nice 124 00:06:22,084 --> 00:06:25,964 Speaker 2: guy with these Irish lilts and everything you think think 125 00:06:26,044 --> 00:06:28,444 Speaker 2: he is, but he's not. 126 00:06:30,364 --> 00:06:33,564 Speaker 3: Basically, I love I love him. I love all of them. 127 00:06:33,764 --> 00:06:36,604 Speaker 3: But Ronnin and I go back. We have history and 128 00:06:36,604 --> 00:06:39,884 Speaker 3: and I just I love being with him. We have 129 00:06:39,924 --> 00:06:43,044 Speaker 3: a great time together. But I've become pals with with 130 00:06:43,204 --> 00:06:46,084 Speaker 3: mel and with Kate, and the four of us just 131 00:06:46,244 --> 00:06:49,124 Speaker 3: have the best time together. You know, even off camera, 132 00:06:49,244 --> 00:06:51,004 Speaker 3: we just we just clicked. 133 00:06:51,804 --> 00:06:53,803 Speaker 1: Well, everyone who worked with you on the Voice, behind 134 00:06:53,804 --> 00:06:56,164 Speaker 1: the scenes, they just had brilliant things to say about you. 135 00:06:56,244 --> 00:06:58,324 Speaker 1: So you much loved across the board. 136 00:06:58,404 --> 00:07:00,604 Speaker 2: A man is giving you a Google review. 137 00:07:02,644 --> 00:07:06,724 Speaker 4: Four stars fall out of five. 138 00:07:06,084 --> 00:07:07,684 Speaker 3: Stars, as long as it's a good review. 139 00:07:10,044 --> 00:07:12,604 Speaker 2: Well, Richard, it's always great to chat to you. The 140 00:07:12,764 --> 00:07:16,124 Speaker 2: Voice starts this Sunday at seven on seven and seven plus. 141 00:07:16,324 --> 00:07:17,324 Speaker 2: Richard Marx, thank you. 142 00:07:18,244 --> 00:07:20,164 Speaker 3: Oh, it's always a pleasure to you. Guys. Be good 143 00:07:20,164 --> 00:07:22,204 Speaker 3: and I'll see you soon. Thank you, Richard, very busy, 144 00:07:22,524 --> 00:07:23,324 Speaker 3: Thank you very much.