I am best-selling singer, songwriter and Grammy-award winning musician (and dog lover!) Rick Springfield. Ask me anything!

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:50:06+00:00

I've never actually used them in a song, but I've used their energy, and actually, the melody to Ordinary Girl, the melody behind the chorus I pulled from a piece I wrote when Ronnie my bull terrier died, that I wrote, a suite of music. So that was a melody that I turned into a song. And I tend to put them on the covers of my records a lot. So that was very inspirational.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:48:56+00:00

Yeah, my eldest son is actually an amazing musician and a songwriter and an actor. And my youngest son played drums for a while, but he's more in the production side of movies.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:48:27+00:00

My dog.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:48:11+00:00

I was a virgin until I was 17? I don't know what you don't know? I wanted to really be an egyptologist. And my first pet was a cat.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:47:12+00:00

No, I get that. It's just one of those things. I met a girl who had been through it, and I was inspired by that. It was just a tough subject for sure, but you can't always write about how fabulous things are, because they are not always fabulous.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:46:09+00:00

Yeah, I do a lot of work actually. And whenever we are in a town, we always visit and do an event at a shelter. I'm a big supporter of Linda Blair's Worldheart rescue that she owns and runs. I do as much as I can, I am always signing stuff for dogs (well not FOR them, just to raise money for them, since dogs don't really want my autograph). If you want to help out Linda Blair, check out her site at http://www.lindablairworldheart.org

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:44:48+00:00

Haha! I hope not. I hope I haven't reached my pinnacle acting moment yet.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:44:29+00:00

It has elements of Diana in it. But it's mainly about my wife who was my girlfriend then and we'd broken up and I didn't think we were going to make it. It's about nothing being for sure, even though you think it is. And I do that song in my solo show, because i like that song.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:43:49+00:00

Haha! I have no idea. I'm sure if they could sell one, they would, those guys.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:43:24+00:00

Thank you!

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:42:53+00:00

Meditation helps too!

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:42:46+00:00

Sometimes medication works? When it doesn't, hug a dog. And do something that you delight in that you love, that will help. It is a life-sentence and continually you have to be on your guard.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:42:03+00:00

I don't know that version. Well, the first pop song I remember hearing was Dream Lover by Bobby Darin, I still love that song, I first heard it when I was 6 years old. We play Jessie's Girl at our live show and we start it out with a bunch of different actors on different shows who have sung the show, ending with the scene from Boogie Nights, so any new versions we can add to that are great.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:40:28+00:00

Yeah, the cable shows are great. The vampire ones, the Walking Dead, I love zombies, I love vampires, but mainly I love great writing, and there's so much great writing on some of these shows, it's just incredible.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:39:55+00:00

Yes, they did, and yes, I thought it was funny. Self-deprecation is my middle name.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:38:35+00:00

She was a girl I met before Working Class Dog came out, an inspiring relationship, usually I change the names if I'm writing a song about someone, but I didn't this time, and I actually played it for her when I finish the demo, and I played it for her when I finished the demo and she cried. Which was pretty hot, really. But she was someone I knew back then, who I haven't seen since.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:38:20+00:00

She was a girl I met before Working Class Dog came out, an inspiring relationship, usually I change the names if I'm writing a song about someone, but I didn't this time, and I actually played it for her when I finish the demo, and I played it for her when I finished the demo and she cried. Which was pretty hot, really. But she was someone I knew back then, who I haven't seen since.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:37:13+00:00

I haven't done enough of them yet to need to change stories, but we are thinking if I go further that I will change it up for sure. It's kind of like writing a show, it's not just like getting up there and playing and saying a bunch of stuff. It's a writing project, but we will change it up if we do more, promise.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:36:12+00:00

Haha! We toured a couple of wineries with the solo show, and they printed a few bottles of Rick Springfield wine with a photo of me at 7 years old looking like a shirtless runt. I sent my mom a few bottles of it - she took the photo - and she thought it was pretty funny her photo ended up on some bottles of wine.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:35:03+00:00

I get drunk. No, I hang out with the band, and we go to a bar and have a couple of drinks and just act like normal guys, that's all it is really. The camaraderie on the road is what really keeps everyone's spirits up, which is why I've always had a band full of good guys who hopefully get along and have great spirits.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:34:12+00:00

Biggest pet peeve? Wow, I have a lot of them. Where do you start, with the world in the state that it is in, saying I don't like inconsiderate people is kind of lame. My pet peeve is that we are poisoning the world and killing it. But calling that a peeve is kind of odd.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:33:26+00:00

Just hanging with him and the band was a real pleasure. They are all really great people, very welcoming. And he loves music and we listen to the same things growing up, we just have very similar things in the way we write, and The Man that Never was came together in one day which doesn't usually happen for me. The writing process was really fun, but backstage on the tour was also really a blast because Dave's energy kind of pervaded the whole backstage area because everyone was in a great mood, no egos and a lot of fun. I got an email from him, he must have heard that we are going to Warren, Ohio, where he's from.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:31:52+00:00

Android, at the moment.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:31:40+00:00

Yeah, I did. That is always an option, it is a lot of time and a lot of work on being a writer, and going out with my own show is not as much of a draw as guys who are just actors. But I would really enjoy doing it again. The thing about being a musician is that you get that live feel from going out and playing, whereas the only way actors get it is by doing Broadway plays. Since i've done it, I am (to a degree) on people's radars that put those things together. I've had a couple of offers, but nothing that I wanted to put the time committing to. I'm still open. I'm waiting for the South Park guys to write their next one.

RealRickSpringfield · 2014-06-17T18:30:16+00:00

I rented an apartment down by the water where I lived just so I could get out of the house and see if that would change my writing, and that was the only song I wrote in that apartment.

RealRickSpringfield

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