August 6, 2025 • 7 mins
The fantastic Richard Marx joins Jonesy & Amanda for a fantastic chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Who doesn't love Richard Marx. He has brought us some
of the biggest hits of the eighties and the nineties,
and he's never one to stop. He's just released a
new single, Magic Hour, which he coded with Black Daisy
or I Like It but Jim, and he's about to
grace our screens as of this weekend for the voice
(00:43):
Richard Marx.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hello, how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We are so good, very well.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It was nice to see you Sunday night at the Logis.
It's a long and strange night for people who.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What did you make of it?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
That's the perfect description. Somebody asked me the other day,
how did I enjoy it? And I said, well, I
spent a week at the Logis that time.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's it just goes for a long time.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's going, it just keeps going.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We were talking a man and I were just talking before.
There's two types of Richard Marx. There's it. You've got
your your Rocky Marx, which we love Rocky marks, and
then you got.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Your Balladie marks where sensitive sensitive marks And now you've
got your tango Marx, Which Marx are you?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Just when you thought you could put a label on me? Yeah,
now you can't. I'm an enigma.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You are an enigma and wrapped in a contradiction and
you rap that's an eggs and uh. And you wrote
that song with your wife, Daisy. How is the songwriting
experience with someone you're so close with.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, we've written a few songs together and it's just
the most organic fun. Because she's not a songwriter. She'd
never written a song before the first song we wrote
together when we were first dating twelve years ago. She
just talks. I just get her to say, like storyline
or if we have a concept for a lyric, I
(02:22):
just say, don't worry about rhyming, just say phrases and
I'll make them work. I'll figure out rhymes for them.
And she's always coming up with like the lines that
I like the best in the songs that were written together.
What's interesting is for you guys, perhaps in your audience,
is that I wrote the music to this song magic
hour Walking when I'm writing the days of me being
(02:44):
locked up in a room to write songs those are over.
I work best and I write best. I'm most creative
when i'm outside, so I take long hikes or long
walks outside and then musical ideas and lyrical ideas just flow.
So I wrote all the music just outside this door
on a hike, and a couple of weeks later, this
is the end of last year. Daisy and I found
(03:07):
ourselves on Lizard Island because I was there in Australia
for a tour, and so we were laying on the
beach at Lizard Island and I'm singing in that melody
and she goes, I love that melody, it's so catchy.
What's it going to be? And I said, I don't.
I don't really know what the lyrics going to be yet.
And we wrote the lyrics together on the beach on
Lizard Island that after and it took like an hour.
That was it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And a husband who wants his wife to talk more.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's such a rare thing. What's that about? Actually there's
money to be made from it? Well, that is true.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But you know, when you talk about writers, block of
wonder this with songwriters, it seems to me that in
your twenties that's when you're most prolific as a songwriter,
and then how does it go? You know, where did
you get to that point where you go, I'm out
of gas, I can't I can't write anymore. It must
be it must be frustrating, like you keep coming up
with stuff. But then you get people that don't like
(04:01):
your wife, who aren't used to the creative process, and
they come up with these stuff. They become amused in
a way.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah. I have never experienced writer's block, as it's known. Luckily,
when I was really young, I was just starting out
as a songwriter. My father who was he was never
a songwriter, but he wrote jingles and commercials and wrote
really catchy melodies, and he told me that there was
no such thing as writer's block, that it was just
(04:28):
a choice. And I believe that, you know, not to
be insensitive to people who suffer from writer's block, But
when I run into songwriters, I go, it's not writer's block.
There's no such thing. You just have to write. You
just have to do it. Now. There might come a
period of time where in the doing it it's just garbage,
but at some point you're going to write something, even
(04:51):
if it's four bars of something or a line of
lyric that you go, well, that's not bad, and then
you can build on that. But you can't stop writing,
because that's just the trick your mind plays on you.
So the only thing for me is that I think
when you say that you're some prolific in your twenties,
that's a really good point. I don't know if it's
that we're prolific where that we're just out to prove
everything at that point. So it feels more like I
(05:15):
got to do this and there is no there's no
time for writer's black. When you're in your twenties, you
know you've got success to go chase. You know. I've
just never really suffered from it. When I need to write,
I write when I'm not in that place. It's totally okay.
I'm just on my own, just hanging out and enjoying life.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And I think that's the thing for all the creative outlets.
It is a choice. There is a discipline to being
creative and being successful in any field.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I think, yeah, well, I think that's true with life.
You know, I'm a real firm believer in the fact
that your life is dictated by your thoughts. So if
you think, oh, I can't do that, I'll never be
able to do that, then you won't. But if you're thinking,
is I'm going to do that, I will absolutely do that.
(06:01):
I mean, I'm testament to it. You know, manifestation is real.
I've manifested every great thing in my life and the
things that have gone wrong in my life. I kind
of I think I'm kind of manifested accidentally too. So
you got to just be careful with your thinking.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's a good that's why you're going to be a
very good coach on the Voice.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And the Voice and you're up. You've got some got
Ryan Keating in there, and he's like missed a nice
guy with these Irish lilts and everything you think think
he is, but he's not.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Basically, I love I love him. I love all of them.
But Ronnin and I go back. We have history and
and I just I love being with him. We have
a great time together. But I've become pals with with
mel and with Kate, and the four of us just
have the best time together. You know, even off camera,
we just we just clicked.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, everyone who worked with you on the Voice, behind
the scenes, they just had brilliant things to say about you.
So you much loved across the board.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
A man is giving you a Google review.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Four stars fall out of five.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Stars, as long as it's a good review.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, Richard, it's always great to chat to you. The
Voice starts this Sunday at seven on seven and seven plus.
Richard Marx, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh, it's always a pleasure to you. Guys. Be good
and I'll see you soon. Thank you, Richard, very busy,
Thank you very much.
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Who doesn't love Richard Marx. He has brought us some
of the biggest hits of the eighties and the nineties,
and he's never one to stop. He's just released a
new single, Magic Hour, which he coded with Black Daisy
or I Like It but Jim, and he's about to
grace our screens as of this weekend for the voice
(00:43):
Richard Marx.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hello, how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We are so good, very well.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It was nice to see you Sunday night at the Logis.
It's a long and strange night for people who.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What did you make of it?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
That's the perfect description. Somebody asked me the other day,
how did I enjoy it? And I said, well, I
spent a week at the Logis that time.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's it just goes for a long time.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's going, it just keeps going.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We were talking a man and I were just talking before.
There's two types of Richard Marx. There's it. You've got
your your Rocky Marx, which we love Rocky marks, and
then you got.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Your Balladie marks where sensitive sensitive marks And now you've
got your tango Marx, Which Marx are you?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Just when you thought you could put a label on me? Yeah,
now you can't. I'm an enigma.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You are an enigma and wrapped in a contradiction and
you rap that's an eggs and uh. And you wrote
that song with your wife, Daisy. How is the songwriting
experience with someone you're so close with.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, we've written a few songs together and it's just
the most organic fun. Because she's not a songwriter. She'd
never written a song before the first song we wrote
together when we were first dating twelve years ago. She
just talks. I just get her to say, like storyline
or if we have a concept for a lyric, I
(02:22):
just say, don't worry about rhyming, just say phrases and
I'll make them work. I'll figure out rhymes for them.
And she's always coming up with like the lines that
I like the best in the songs that were written together.
What's interesting is for you guys, perhaps in your audience,
is that I wrote the music to this song magic
hour Walking when I'm writing the days of me being
(02:44):
locked up in a room to write songs those are over.
I work best and I write best. I'm most creative
when i'm outside, so I take long hikes or long
walks outside and then musical ideas and lyrical ideas just flow.
So I wrote all the music just outside this door
on a hike, and a couple of weeks later, this
is the end of last year. Daisy and I found
(03:07):
ourselves on Lizard Island because I was there in Australia
for a tour, and so we were laying on the
beach at Lizard Island and I'm singing in that melody
and she goes, I love that melody, it's so catchy.
What's it going to be? And I said, I don't.
I don't really know what the lyrics going to be yet.
And we wrote the lyrics together on the beach on
Lizard Island that after and it took like an hour.
That was it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And a husband who wants his wife to talk more.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's such a rare thing. What's that about? Actually there's
money to be made from it? Well, that is true.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But you know, when you talk about writers, block of
wonder this with songwriters, it seems to me that in
your twenties that's when you're most prolific as a songwriter,
and then how does it go? You know, where did
you get to that point where you go, I'm out
of gas, I can't I can't write anymore. It must
be it must be frustrating, like you keep coming up
with stuff. But then you get people that don't like
(04:01):
your wife, who aren't used to the creative process, and
they come up with these stuff. They become amused in
a way.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah. I have never experienced writer's block, as it's known. Luckily,
when I was really young, I was just starting out
as a songwriter. My father who was he was never
a songwriter, but he wrote jingles and commercials and wrote
really catchy melodies, and he told me that there was
no such thing as writer's block, that it was just
(04:28):
a choice. And I believe that, you know, not to
be insensitive to people who suffer from writer's block, But
when I run into songwriters, I go, it's not writer's block.
There's no such thing. You just have to write. You
just have to do it. Now. There might come a
period of time where in the doing it it's just garbage,
but at some point you're going to write something, even
(04:51):
if it's four bars of something or a line of
lyric that you go, well, that's not bad, and then
you can build on that. But you can't stop writing,
because that's just the trick your mind plays on you.
So the only thing for me is that I think
when you say that you're some prolific in your twenties,
that's a really good point. I don't know if it's
that we're prolific where that we're just out to prove
everything at that point. So it feels more like I
(05:15):
got to do this and there is no there's no
time for writer's black. When you're in your twenties, you
know you've got success to go chase. You know. I've
just never really suffered from it. When I need to write,
I write when I'm not in that place. It's totally okay.
I'm just on my own, just hanging out and enjoying life.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And I think that's the thing for all the creative outlets.
It is a choice. There is a discipline to being
creative and being successful in any field.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I think, yeah, well, I think that's true with life.
You know, I'm a real firm believer in the fact
that your life is dictated by your thoughts. So if
you think, oh, I can't do that, I'll never be
able to do that, then you won't. But if you're thinking,
is I'm going to do that, I will absolutely do that.
(06:01):
I mean, I'm testament to it. You know, manifestation is real.
I've manifested every great thing in my life and the
things that have gone wrong in my life. I kind
of I think I'm kind of manifested accidentally too. So
you got to just be careful with your thinking.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's a good that's why you're going to be a
very good coach on the Voice.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And the Voice and you're up. You've got some got
Ryan Keating in there, and he's like missed a nice
guy with these Irish lilts and everything you think think
he is, but he's not.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Basically, I love I love him. I love all of them.
But Ronnin and I go back. We have history and
and I just I love being with him. We have
a great time together. But I've become pals with with
mel and with Kate, and the four of us just
have the best time together. You know, even off camera,
we just we just clicked.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, everyone who worked with you on the Voice, behind
the scenes, they just had brilliant things to say about you.
So you much loved across the board.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
A man is giving you a Google review.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Four stars fall out of five.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Stars, as long as it's a good review.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, Richard, it's always great to chat to you. The
Voice starts this Sunday at seven on seven and seven plus.
Richard Marx, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh, it's always a pleasure to you. Guys. Be good
and I'll see you soon. Thank you, Richard, very busy,
Thank you very much.
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