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" I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. "

Rick Springfield

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" Life is good. Yes, it's great. "

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" I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way. "

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" I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield. "

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" There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have. "

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" 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. "

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" You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons. "

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" Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans. "

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" There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to. "

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" I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated. "

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" 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. "

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" I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years. "

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" I think good art does come from a dark place. "

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" I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate. "

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" There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling. "

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" You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift. "

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" I'll watch any show on the History Channel. "

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" I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low. "

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" When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get. "

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" Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything. "

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" I like to write when I feel I'm the real me. "

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" Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me. "

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" You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant. "

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" Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do. "

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