Quotes By Rick Springfield

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

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

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I love acting.

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

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

I have seen my mugshot.

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

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

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

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.

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

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.