Rick Springfield Quotes

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

I have seen my mugshot.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.

I've always treated women well.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

Life is good. Yes, it's great.

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

I was more than just a moody artist.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.