I'm glad I can do both full-band electric and solo acoustic performances. It's nice to have contrast, so if you get fed up with one, you can just switch to the other one. It's great to go to a town and play an acoustic show, and then you can come back a year later and play electric, and the show's really fairly different. The repertoire will be 50 percent different. The musical energy is completely different.
Richard ThompsonWhat I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
Richard ThompsonThere is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
Richard ThompsonIf you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you may as well confess what you want to confess and say what you want to say, whatever that is. Some songs just turn out as being more about me, and some are more through the eyes of other people, or third-person descriptions of people.
Richard Thompson