Quotes By Rick Springfield

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

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

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

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

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I was more than just a moody artist.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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

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.

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