Rick Springfield Quotes

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

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

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#3. I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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#4. Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

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#5. I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

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#6. Life is good. Yes, it's great.

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.

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

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#11. I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

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

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#13. I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

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#14. I think good art does come from a dark place.

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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.

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

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#19. I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

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

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

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

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#23. You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

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

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

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

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

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

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#29. I have seen my mugshot.

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

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#31. 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.

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

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

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#34. 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.

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

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

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

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#38. I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

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#39. I've always treated women well.

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#40. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#45. 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.

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#46. 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.

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

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

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#49. 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.

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

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

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#52. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#58. I mean I was famous for nothing.

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

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

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#61. 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.

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

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

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#64. I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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

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#66. 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.

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

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#68. Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.

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#69. 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.

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

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

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#72. I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

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

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#74. I was more than just a moody artist.

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