I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
Rick Springfield
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
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.
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.
Life is good. Yes, it's great.
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
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.
There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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.
Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
I was more than just a moody artist.
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.
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.
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.
It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
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.
There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.
I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.
I'll watch any show on the History Channel.
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
You know, everybody is dealing with issues.
I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
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 get inspired at different times and in different ways.
I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
I mean I was famous for nothing.
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've always treated women well.
