Quotes by Rick Springfield

About Rick Springfield:

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. He had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US, for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. He followed with four more top 10 US hits, "I've Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart" and "Love Somebody".
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You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

Rick Springfield

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.

Rick Springfield

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.

Rick Springfield

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

Rick Springfield

Life is good. Yes, it's great.

Rick Springfield

I mean I was famous for nothing.

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

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

Rick Springfield

Author Bio

  • NameRick Springfield
  • DescriptionAustralian-American musician, singer-songwriter, and actor
  • BornAugust 23, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Australia
  • ProfessionActor; Musician; Singer-songwriter; Singer