“If the timing’s right and the gods are with you, something special happens.”
― Rick Springfield
“Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.”
― Rick Springfield
“The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.”
― Rick Springfield
“I think good art does come from a dark place.”
― Rick Springfield
“I can’t imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.”
― Rick Springfield
“Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.”
― Rick Springfield
“Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.”
― Rick Springfield
“I get inspired at different times and in different ways.”
― Rick Springfield
“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.”
― Rick Springfield
“Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.”
― Rick Springfield
“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.”
― Rick Springfield
“Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.”
― Rick Springfield
“When someone pursues music through your music, that’s the greatest accolade anybody can get.”
― Rick Springfield
“I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.”
― Rick Springfield
“There weren’t a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.”
― Rick Springfield
“Life is good. Yes, it’s great.”
― Rick Springfield
“I don’t want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn’t Rick Springfield.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’ve always liked the heavier stuff. I’ve always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.”
― Rick Springfield
“My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.”
― Rick Springfield
“Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.”
― Rick Springfield
“I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys – some very rare stuff.”
― Rick Springfield
“I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.”
― Rick Springfield
“I took that time off – I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’ve heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I’m underrated.”
― Rick Springfield
“I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.”
― Rick Springfield
“They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.”
― Rick Springfield
“I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that’s pretty much it.”
― Rick Springfield
“I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’ve been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that’s my true love.”
― Rick Springfield
“I don’t think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’ll watch any show on the History Channel.”
― Rick Springfield
“Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.”
― Rick Springfield
“I was pretty burned out in ’85 and was getting – starting to get into some issues.”
― Rick Springfield
“You know, everybody is dealing with issues.”
― Rick Springfield
“The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song ‘Christmas with You’ from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.”
― Rick Springfield
“I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’d say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say ‘matured’ but I don’t think I’d use that word in relation to my progress. I think ‘change’ is a little more accurate.”
― Rick Springfield
“I like to write when I feel I’m the real me.”
― Rick Springfield
“I was – I’ve always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.”
― Rick Springfield
“I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.”
― Rick Springfield
“I mean I was famous for nothing.”
― Rick Springfield
“It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that’s about how much I love my fans.”
― Rick Springfield
“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.”
― Rick Springfield
“It’s a rock ‘n’ roll thing to have one-night stands.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’ve always treated women well.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’ve gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.”
― Rick Springfield
“I was more than just a moody artist.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’m thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could’ve gone the other way.”
― Rick Springfield
“I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.”
― Rick Springfield
“Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.”
― Rick Springfield
“I’m surrounded by great guitar players.”
― Rick Springfield
“I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what’s painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.”
― Rick Springfield
“The danger in promiscuity is that it’s always barking at your heels.”
― Rick Springfield
“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.”
― Rick Springfield
“There were times when I’ve not wanted to be in my own skin, and that’s a very scary feeling.”
― Rick Springfield
“I have seen my mugshot.”
― Rick Springfield
“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.”
― Rick Springfield
“I don’t ever expect to be permanently happy. I don’t think that’s part of the human condition.”
― Rick Springfield
“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.”
― Rick Springfield
“Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.”
― Rick Springfield
“I love acting.”
― Rick Springfield
“Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.”
― Rick Springfield
“I meditate. Meditation helps me.”
― Rick Springfield
“There will always be rock stars, but I don’t know how much depth and longevity they’ll have.”
― 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.”
― Rick Springfield
“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.”
― Rick Springfield
“You never really shake depression and that’s a tough road you have to deal with.”
― Rick Springfield
“My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.”
― Rick Springfield
“You always want to feel you’re not the only one going through something unpleasant.”
― Rick Springfield
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