Quotes By Rick Springfield

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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'll watch any show on the History Channel.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I was more than just a moody artist.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You know, everybody is dealing with issues.