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.

- Rick Springfield

I mean I was famous for nothing.

- Rick Springfield

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

- Rick Springfield

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

- Rick Springfield

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

- Rick Springfield

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

- Rick Springfield

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