Rick Springfield Quotes

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

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

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

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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

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

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

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

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.

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

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I mean I was famous for nothing.

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

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