Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
— Rick Springfield
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.
I love acting.
I think good art does come from a dark place.
I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.
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'm surrounded by great guitar players.
The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
I was more than just a moody artist.
It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
Life is good. Yes, it's great.
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
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 was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
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.
I meditate. Meditation helps me.
Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.
I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
I have seen my mugshot.
The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.
Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.
I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.
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 mean I was famous for nothing.
I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
You know, everybody is dealing with issues.
I'll watch any show on the History Channel.
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
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.
Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.
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.
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.
There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
I've always treated women well.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
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 was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.
