Rick Springfield

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.

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.

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

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

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

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

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

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

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

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

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

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

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.

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

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

It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

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.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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 would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

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

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

You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

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

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

Life is good. Yes, it's great.

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

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

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

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

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

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.

I was more than just a moody artist.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

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.

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

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

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

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

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

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

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

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