Rick Springfield Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.

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

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

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

I've always treated women well.

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

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

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

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

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

He doesn't stop talking for most of the three-hour flight about his time in "'Nam." Finally the conversation slows, and I ask him what he's done since leaving the army.

He sums it up in three words: "I'm in insurance."

And that's it. That's all he has to say about the following forty years.

I think I may be in a similar situation with the whole marriage bit. Three words: "I got married.

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

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

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

I was more than just a moody artist.

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

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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.

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

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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

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.