Rick Springfield Quotes

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

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

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

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

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

I have seen my mugshot.

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

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

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

I meditate. Meditation helps 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.

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.

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

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.

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 get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

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'm surrounded by great guitar players.

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

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

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

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 think good art does come from a dark place.

I was more than just a moody artist.

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

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