Rick Springfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I mean I was famous for nothing.”

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

“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 more than just a moody artist.”

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

“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.”

“There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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