Rick Springfield's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

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

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'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.

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

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I was more than just a moody artist.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I have seen my mugshot.

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

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

I love acting.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.