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.
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.
I think I lost my direction at the end of the '80s; I didn't know what I was writing anymore,
The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
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.