Top 33 Rick Springfield Quotes

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

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

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

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

I have seen my mugshot.

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.

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

You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

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

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

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.

Life is good. Yes, it’s great.

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

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

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

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I mean I was famous for nothing.

I’m surrounded by great guitar players.

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

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

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

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

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

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