Rick Springfield Quotations

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.

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

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

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

I was more than just a moody artist.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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.

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

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

I think the new adventurous music is for the kids in a state of flux - they're open to all that - and in 10, 15, 20 years it will be their golden era, and they'll be playing Korn and getting nostalgic.

I think it's pretty bizarre, ... I think you look to music to help you through (growing old), and the music that's strongest in your soul is the stuff you heard as a kid. I do that all the time. I listen to old albums and there's almost a spiritual support there.

I went through some therapy, working on what was going on inside me, and I got back on track. I certainly have different priorities now. The great thing about having kids -- you can finally get your attention off yourself. There's something more to live for.

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

I think I lost my direction at the end of the '80s; I didn't know what I was writing anymore,

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.

Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did,

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

Thirty, 40 times a day I must get questions when I'm on the road about General Hospital or Noah Drake. It's constant, ... It amazes me that it's still so prevalent in the fans' minds.

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

They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a little bit more on the moody side.

It's a big number, but I'm OK with it, ... I went through my midlife crisis at about 38 and 39, so I'm over that.

I'm thought of as very light 'pop-y' kind of music, but it all had very dark undercurrents and I was a very messed up person... there's a lot of double entendre stuff in it.

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 can wade into an audience now and not lose a limb, so that's great,

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 am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music.

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

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have seen my mugshot.

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

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

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

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 mean I was famous for nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

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

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

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

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

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

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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