Rick Springfield Quotes


"They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Teen, Time, Idols, Marketing)

"Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Karma)

"Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Music)

"My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Kiss, EnglFirst)

"Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Music)

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Guitar, School)

"Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Magic, Mission, Reason)

"When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Music)

"I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Music, Acting)

"I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Fans, Musicians, Writers)

"I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Love, Old, Songs, Writing, Years)

"I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails."
- Rick Springfield
"I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling."
- Rick Springfield
"I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Poetry, Kids, Quiet)

"I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Time, Being, Spiritual)

"I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Pretty, School)

"I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Want)

"I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff."
- Rick Springfield
"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."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Actor)

"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."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Being, Songs)

"If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Gods, Right)

"I'll watch any show on the History Channel."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: History)

"I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough."
- Rick Springfield
"I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Music)