Rick Springfield Quotes

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

“I was more than just a moody artist.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

“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.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

“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.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— 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.”

— Rick Springfield

“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.”

— Rick Springfield

“I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— 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.”

— Rick Springfield

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.

— Rick Springfield

“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.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

“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.”

— Rick Springfield

“I have seen my mugshot.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

“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.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

“You know, everybody is dealing with issues.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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.

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

“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.”

— Rick Springfield

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

— Rick Springfield

“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.”

— Rick Springfield

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.

— Rick Springfield

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.

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield