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've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
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 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.
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.
You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
I'm surrounded by great guitar players.
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.