Best 46 quotes of Rick Springfield on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

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 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 meditate. Meditation helps me.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I was more than just a moody artist.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.