Top 68 Quotes by Rick Springfield

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

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.

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

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'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

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

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.

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