Richard Lewis Springthorpe Quotes
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I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
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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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I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.
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Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
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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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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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She's loving him with that body, I just know it.
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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'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
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When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
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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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Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
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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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If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.
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Everything looks better with my eyes closed.
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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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If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
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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 was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
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I think good art does come from a dark place.
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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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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
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The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
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My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.