129 Quotes by Rick Springfield

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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