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 love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.
At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.
I'm thought of as very light 'pop-y' kind of music, but it all had very dark undercurrents and I was a very messed up person... there's a lot of double entendre stuff in it.
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.
Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.
Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did,
I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
It's a big number, but I'm OK with it, ... I went through my midlife crisis at about 38 and 39, so I'm over that.
There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.
They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a little bit more on the moody side.
Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.
When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.