Rick Springfield
Rick Springfield
Rick Springfieldis an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, actor and author. He was a member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971, then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia in mid-1972, when he moved to the United States. He had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US, for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 August 1949
CountryUnited States of America
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.
Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
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.
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.
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
She's loving him with that body, I just know it.
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.