Rick springfield quotes

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

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

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 think good art does come from a dark place.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I was more than just a moody artist.

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

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have seen my mugshot.

At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

She's loving him with that body, I just know it.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

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

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 meditate. Meditation helps me.

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

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

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

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.