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
Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
I think I lost my direction at the end of the '80s; I didn't know what I was writing anymore,
Thirty, 40 times a day I must get questions when I'm on the road about General Hospital or Noah Drake. It's constant, ... It amazes me that it's still so prevalent in the fans' minds.
I think the new adventurous music is for the kids in a state of flux - they're open to all that - and in 10, 15, 20 years it will be their golden era, and they'll be playing Korn and getting nostalgic.
Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.
I think it's pretty bizarre, ... I think you look to music to help you through (growing old), and the music that's strongest in your soul is the stuff you heard as a kid. I do that all the time. I listen to old albums and there's almost a spiritual support there.
Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.
I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did,
I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.
Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
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.
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.