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.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
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.
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did,
I think I lost my direction at the end of the '80s; I didn't know what I was writing anymore,
I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.
Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.
The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.
It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
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.
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.