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" You know, everybody is dealing with issues. "
Rick Springfield
Everybody
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" I love acting. "
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" I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. "
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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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" 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 can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am. "
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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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" Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. "
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" I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years. "
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" I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video. "
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" 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. "
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I Can
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" I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent. "
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Perpetual
" I like to write when I feel I'm the real me. "
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" Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do. "
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" I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. "
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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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Way
Thankful
" I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia. "
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Success
Got
" I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated. "
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Fans
Think
Underrated
" I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues. "
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Issues
Get
Out
" Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can. "
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Actor
You
I Can
" I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was. "
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Better
Musicians
Listening
" I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. "
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Kids
Dark
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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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Backwards
Used
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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
" I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love. "
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Old
Love
Writing
" 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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Thought
You
Demons
" I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough. "
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Think
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" They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time. "
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" I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane. "
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