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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. "
Rick Springfield
Up
Around
Girl
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" When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get. "
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Greatest
Through
Someone
" 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
" It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans. "
Rick Springfield
Much
Love
Fans
" I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia. "
Rick Springfield
America
Success
Got
" I'm surrounded by great guitar players. "
Rick Springfield
Players
Surrounded
Guitar
" I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane. "
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Spiritual
Connected
Me
" I've always treated women well. "
Rick Springfield
Well
Treated
Always
" My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight. "
Rick Springfield
Kid
Picture
Crush
" 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
" The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels. "
Rick Springfield
Heels
Your
Always
" As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around. "
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Way
Realize
Important
" I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues. "
Rick Springfield
Issues
Get
Out
" Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans. "
Rick Springfield
Fans
Young
Loudest
" They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time. "
Rick Springfield
Doing
Marketing
Idols
" I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love. "
Rick Springfield
Old
Love
Writing
" 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 love acting. "
Rick Springfield
Acting
I Love
Love
" 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
" 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 meditate. Meditation helps me. "
Rick Springfield
Me
Meditation
Meditate
" You know, everybody is dealing with issues. "
Rick Springfield
Everybody
You
Know
" Life is good. Yes, it's great. "
Rick Springfield
Yes
Good
Great
" Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets. "
Rick Springfield
Other
Puberty
I Think
" I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was. "
Rick Springfield
Better
Musicians
Listening
" 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
" Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships. "
Rick Springfield
Experience
Relationships
Personal
" I mean I was famous for nothing. "
Rick Springfield
Mean
Famous
Nothing
" I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low. "
Rick Springfield
Think
Gone
Going
" I think good art does come from a dark place. "
Rick Springfield
Come
Dark
Think
" Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them. "
Rick Springfield
Troubles
About
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