Quotes from 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.

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

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I mean I was famous for nothing.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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