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Rick Springfield [1949-0] American

Rank: 102
Musician

Rick Springfield is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, actor and author. He was a member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971, then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia in mid-1972, when he moved to the United States.

Teen, Birthday, Christmas, Communication, Poetry, Thankful

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If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.		101
Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.		102
It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.		103
I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.	Thankful	104
The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.		105
I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.	Teen	106
I was more than just a moody artist.		107
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.		108
Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.		109
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.		110
There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.		111
The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.	Birthday	112
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.		113
Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.		114
I think good art does come from a dark place.		115
I meditate. Meditation helps me.		116
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.		117
Life is good. Yes, it's great.		118
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.	Teen	119
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.		120
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.	Christmas	121
I get inspired at different times and in different ways.		122
I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.		123
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.		124
I'm surrounded by great guitar players.		125
I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.		126
You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.		201
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.		202
There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.		203
I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.		204
I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.		205
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.		206
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.		207
I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.		208
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.		209
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.		210
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.	Poetry	211
I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.		212
I'll watch any show on the History Channel.		213
I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.		214
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.		215
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.		216
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.		217
When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.		218
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.		219
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.		220
I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.		221
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.		222
I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.		223
You know, everybody is dealing with issues.		224
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.		225
I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.		226
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.		301
I mean I was famous for nothing.		302
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.		303
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.		304
I've always treated women well.		305
Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.		306
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.		307
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.		308
There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.		309
I have seen my mugshot.		310
I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.		311
Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.		312
I love acting.		313
Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.		314
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.		315
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.		316
My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.	Communication	317

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