Top 60 Rick Springfield Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Rick Springfield

2. “I’m thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could’ve gone the other way.”

— Rick Springfield

3. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

4. “I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.”

— Rick Springfield

5. “I think good art does come from a dark place.”

— Rick Springfield

6. “I have seen my mugshot.”

— Rick Springfield

7. “I meditate. Meditation helps me.”

— Rick Springfield

8. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

9. “I don’t want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn’t Rick Springfield.”

— Rick Springfield

10. “She’s loving him with that body, I just know it.”

— Rick Springfield

11. “I was more than just a moody artist.”

— Rick Springfield

12. “Everything looks better with my eyes closed.”

— Rick Springfield

13. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

15. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

16. “If the timing’s right and the gods are with you, something special happens.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

18. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

22. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

23. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

24. “Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.”

— Rick Springfield

25. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

26. “I get inspired at different times and in different ways.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

29. “Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

31. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

32. “I mean I was famous for nothing.”

— Rick Springfield

33. “I’ve heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I’m underrated.”

— Rick Springfield

34. “You always want to feel you’re not the only one going through something unpleasant.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

36. “I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.”

— Rick Springfield

37. “I can’t imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

40. “It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that’s about how much I love my fans.”

— Rick Springfield

41. “You never really shake depression and that’s a tough road you have to deal with.”

— Rick Springfield

42. “I don’t think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.”

— Rick Springfield

43. “I don’t ever expect to be permanently happy. I don’t think that’s part of the human condition.”

— Rick Springfield

44. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

46. “I was – I’ve always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.”

— Rick Springfield

47. “I’ll watch any show on the History Channel.”

— Rick Springfield

48. “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.”

— Rick Springfield

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

— Rick Springfield

50. “I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that’s pretty much it.”

— Rick Springfield