"But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever." ― Richard Marx Topic(s): Success More From Richard Marx "I have complete freedom, and there’s no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?" "But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997." "It’s funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we’ve never written songs in the same room." More In Success "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."― John Foster Dulles "Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don’t come together in real groups."― Anne Rice "Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self."― Ralph Marston