music is power

"We're in a malaise," he says. "What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?" "You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is." "I think I was born to be a songwriter," he continues. "I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person and I could easily melt away into the background. But I am driven to write tunes. Creativity for me is almost like therapy, my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind and there's some dark stuff in there. If I lived in LA, I'd be seeing someone three times a day, every day. But I'm a northern Englishman dealing with his shit in his own way."

he is Richard Ashcroft