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" Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. "
Rick Springfield
Puberty
School
Me
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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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Show
Magic
Mission
" The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq. "
Rick Springfield
Doing
Song
Point
" I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent. "
Rick Springfield
Bit
Been
Perpetual
" It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands. "
Rick Springfield
Roll
Rock N Roll
Rock
" 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. "
Rick Springfield
Song
People
Beautiful
" I love acting. "
Rick Springfield
Acting
I Love
Love
" I get inspired at different times and in different ways. "
Rick Springfield
Get
Times
Ways
" You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with. "
Rick Springfield
Depression
You
Tough
" I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video. "
Rick Springfield
Fortunate
Very
Video
" There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have. "
Rick Springfield
Know
Stars
Rock
" Life is good. Yes, it's great. "
Rick Springfield
Yes
Good
Great
" Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially. "
Rick Springfield
Stress
People
You
" 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. "
Rick Springfield
Room
I Can
Audience
" I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia. "
Rick Springfield
America
Success
Got
" There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to. "
Rick Springfield
Up
Around
Girl
" Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing. "
Rick Springfield
Life
Thing
Over
" I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was. "
Rick Springfield
Better
Musicians
Listening
" 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. "
Rick Springfield
Writing
Progress
Think
" 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. "
Rick Springfield
Real
Songs
You
" I have seen my mugshot. "
Rick Springfield
Seen
" 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. "
Rick Springfield
Backwards
Used
Tennis
" I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff. "
Rick Springfield
Star
Toy
I Am
" I like to write when I feel I'm the real me. "
Rick Springfield
Feel
Like
I Feel
" I've always treated women well. "
Rick Springfield
Well
Treated
Always
" Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me. "
Rick Springfield
Thing
Me
Music
" I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am. "
Rick Springfield
Imagine
Anybody
Am
" 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. "
Rick Springfield
Thought
You
Demons
" You know, everybody is dealing with issues. "
Rick Springfield
Everybody
You
Know
" I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails. "
Rick Springfield
Loved
Nails
System
" 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. "
Rick Springfield
Look
Someone
You