Quotes By Rick Springfield

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

Life is good. Yes, it's great.

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

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.

I've always treated women well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

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

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 love acting.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.