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
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.
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.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
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.