Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Springfield
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
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.
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
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.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
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.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
Life is good. Yes, it's great.
There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.
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'll watch any show on the History Channel.
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 don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.
When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
I think good art does come from a dark place.
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
I have seen my mugshot.
I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.
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.
You know, everybody is dealing with issues.
I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.
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.
I'm surrounded by great guitar players.
I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.
The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.
My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
I meditate. Meditation helps me.
I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.
I mean I was famous for nothing.
I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
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.
Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.
I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
I was more than just a moody artist.
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
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.
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
I've always treated women well.
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