Richard Lewis Springthorpe Quotes
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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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I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.
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I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
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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 can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.
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I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
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I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
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I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.
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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
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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 do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.
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Everything looks better with my eyes closed.
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My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
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I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
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If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
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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 have seen my mugshot.
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I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
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Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
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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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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.
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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.