Rick Springfield Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Rick Springfield:
I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.
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There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
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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.
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There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
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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.
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Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.
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You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
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Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
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I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
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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.
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I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
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Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
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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.
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I think good art does come from a dark place.
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I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
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I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.
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I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
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Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.
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I have seen my mugshot.
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If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
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I'll watch any show on the History Channel.
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My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
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Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.
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Life is good. Yes, it's great.
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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.
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I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
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They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
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I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
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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.
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My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
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You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
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I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
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Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
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I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
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I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
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I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
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I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.
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I've always treated women well.
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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.
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Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
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When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
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I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
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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.
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I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
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The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.
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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
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I love acting.
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I'm surrounded by great guitar players.
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Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
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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.
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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.
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You know, everybody is dealing with issues.
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I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
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It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
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I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
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I mean I was famous for nothing.
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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.
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I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
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I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
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I was more than just a moody artist.
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There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.
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Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
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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.
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I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.
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I meditate. Meditation helps me.
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The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
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I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
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