Rick Springfield Quotes - Page 3

I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.

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

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

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

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

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

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

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

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

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

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

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

She's loving him with that body, I just know it.

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.