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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

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.

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

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

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

I mean I was famous for nothing.

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

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

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

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

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

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