Rick Springfield Quotes
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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.
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I'm surrounded by great guitar players.
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I meditate. Meditation helps me.
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I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
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I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
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If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.
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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.
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I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
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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.
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I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
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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.
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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.
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I have seen my mugshot.
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I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
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My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
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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.
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I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.
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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.
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Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
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You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
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The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
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Everything looks better with my eyes closed.
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Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
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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.
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I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
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Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
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They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
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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.
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