Rick Springfield quotes:

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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.

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

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

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

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

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

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

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

You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and Confucianism. Just different approaches and some have really stayed with me.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

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.

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

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 learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

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

At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.

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

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

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

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

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

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

I was more than just a moody artist.

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

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

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.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

Life is good. Yes, it's great.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

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.

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

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.

I have seen my mugshot.

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.

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

I mean I was famous for nothing.

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

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

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

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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

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

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

The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

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.

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