Richard Lewis Springthorpe Quotes
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I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
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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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You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
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I think good art does come from a dark place.
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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.
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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 don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.
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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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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 like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
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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 always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
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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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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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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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Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.
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I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
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I mean I was famous for nothing.
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The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.