Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Springfield - Page 2

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.

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

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 don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

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

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.

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

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

I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and Confucianism. Just different approaches and some have really stayed with me.

I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.

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

She's loving him with that body, I just know it.

At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.

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.

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

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

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

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

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.

I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

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