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
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of... →
Bruce Springsteen
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys... →
Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And... →
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the... →
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it... →
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind... →
Stephen Sprouse
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't... →