WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.359 Hi, Rick, How are you? I'm good, How are you doing 2 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:06.679 good? Oh my gosh. I have spoken to you so many times in 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:10.960 my career, and I feels like every year you've You've got fifty billion tour 4 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:16.719 dates, You're still supporting your incredible album that we spoke about your ladies that 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:21.480 I'm automatic you're still doing the cruise tours. Every time you do these right 6 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.199 and meet new fans or old fans or people have been with you like, 7 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:28.719 does that is that what keeps you going? Is that do you need them 8 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:32.280 as much as they need you? Yeah? Absolutely. I used to think 9 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:36.000 it was all about me. I think you do when when you first have 10 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:38.840 success, But if you're in up for a long enough, you realize it's 11 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:43.920 actually about the fans. And if they weren't there, you'd be you know, 12 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:49.560 planned to treat people at the holiday end. So you know, I'm 13 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:55.000 very, very fortunate to have people that are still interested in what I'm doing 14 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:59.240 and what I've done, and I feel very I feel very honored, and 15 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.560 I'm greatful for it. I don't I don't take that for granted ever. 16 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.239 And you know, it's fun when when we see your show and the people 17 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:12.840 that sometimes you have with you at different venues or you're the crews and the 18 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.480 fan fest that you you do. It feels like just so much like a 19 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.000 break from the headlines, a break from the world. It's like it stops 20 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.200 time almost when you hear these songs, they're comfortable, they make you think 21 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:30.799 and reflect and we're happy. And then some of your later music, you're 22 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:36.519 newer music or covers, if you will, we already accept them and love 23 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:40.000 them because it's it's it's from you. And is that how you go in 24 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.359 to anything new that you want to try and approach? Is it is it 25 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:47.760 that familiar feel that you you write with, or what is your inspiration when 26 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:55.280 trying to conjure up anything new? It's trually, I don't know. I 27 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:59.760 don't think any writer really knows where the songs truly come from. They can 28 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.799 get ideas when you see as something in the headlines or something happens to you 29 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:10.520 personally, but the idea of the song coming through to to detail that or 30 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:15.680 to put that in perspective, or you know, like if it's a death 31 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:19.560 and a friend, you know, to to put that out there and try 32 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:23.719 and heal through that. I don't really know where it comes from I know 33 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.560 that I want to share songs I write. That's why I don't sit on 34 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.280 the shelf. You know, you want to share your feelings or others and 35 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:35.639 and when I'm moved by someone's song, I want to I want to write 36 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.879 a song like that to move people. It's part of the drive of a 37 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:43.639 writer, I think, to connect. It's a way I connect with other 38 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:49.439 people. I'm not real social as a person, but on stage I am, 39 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.919 and through my music, I am Rick Springfield dot Com is where you 40 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.800 can go get all the information all your new music, and you're touring through 41 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:59.800 the appears to be through the end of February. I'm sure you'll add some 42 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:02.199 more stuff in there here and there, and then within that you're stopping at 43 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:07.159 different cities and you're going to take a little break to do your fan get 44 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.560 away, which is in the Dominican Republic, so nice place to get away 45 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:15.919 with your fans in October. So I'll have all the details up on that. 46 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:21.319 Let's talk about you and your life, and I always seem to talk 47 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.879 to you whenever I have a ton of events surrounding animals coming up. And 48 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:28.719 it's it's crazy because I know how much animals mean to you, and I 49 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:31.439 always like to talk to you about your inspiration, your pups. They mean, 50 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:35.400 oh my gosh, so I have a new dog now he's going to 51 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.960 turn one this coming Sunday, Wolfgang. But tell me about your life and 52 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:46.840 pets and how they've added to your music. They well, they've certainly saved 53 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:53.360 my life for sure. To call them Fry project. I just can meet 54 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:59.120 him, you know, anywhere I meet him raises my spirits. We see 55 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:01.919 him in the airport and we're an hotel the other day that had a hotel 56 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:10.639 dog and it's uh, it's they just slowly brought blood pressure and major major 57 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:15.319 part for me, you know, to keep kind of keep saying I've always 58 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.600 had a dog always well, and you know, I do think some things 59 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:28.360 to help animals and kids. I think the two that I put my most 60 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.079 energy towards. Well, I mean, you really can't. You can't go 61 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:34.199 wrong in those two arenas, right, because if someone has a problem with 62 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:38.519 that, then that's a whole other situation with that person, right, Because 63 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:42.839 I do. I do a program called Amazing Canine Duos and Lost in Pound, 64 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.759 and I always close with people and pets when we're kinder to animals, 65 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.439 we're kinder to people. And I believe that, and I believe that's why 66 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:54.399 I've always been such a fan of yours, because you know, from from 67 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:58.120 the yet go, from following you, you know, yes, doctor Noah 68 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.360 Drake. Yes, I was there with that, and then following you through 69 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.879 your TV and your film and your animal advocacy and your music, and it's 70 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:10.120 just, you know, it's just fun. And having been around all that 71 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:14.439 rick and and writing through all of that, you know, you're you're watching 72 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.079 musicians, you're watching friends, You're we're all getting a little older. Does 73 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.759 that give you different purpose when you go out on the road now? Do 74 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:24.959 you have a more grateful I know you touched on that moments ago about being 75 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:30.759 for the fans, but personally, do you have more of an appreciation for 76 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:35.720 yourself and your music when you're out on the road Now? I think I'm 77 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:41.000 a little easier on myself. Yeah. I used to be very used to 78 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:45.680 be very harsh on myself when I was younger, and my worst critic and 79 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.519 all that that's seized up a little and I've gotten older, and I guess 80 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:56.920 I'm more sure of myself and you know, confident and myself as a writer 81 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.519 and all that kind of thing. And I don't know if we've comes with 82 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:05.279 age, but I think certainly there's a certain confidence that does come with it 83 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.000 for sure. And you know you've been doing it for a long time. 84 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:13.639 But I don't have some chops or have it down but now or you know 85 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:16.839 that I'm a better freaking to stop right, all right? So do you 86 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.240 always have a guitar handy? Like whenever you're so you're just like, okay, 87 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.319 everyone's like, oh, we're gonna sit, We're gonna watch a movie 88 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:25.879 and it's quiet and there's a scary partument on and all of a sudden here 89 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:28.600 comes wricking a guitar. Like are you that person on the couch with a 90 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:30.879 guitar all the time? Or do you do you put it down and take 91 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.120 breaks from it? Oh? No, I put yeah, I put it. 92 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.639 I put it down. I only pick it up to write, really, 93 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:44.040 And it's usually you know, outside are there are places I go to 94 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:48.319 write, but I'm watching something unless unless some idea comes from what I'm watching, 95 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:53.800 which has happened for sure, I'll grab I'll grab a guitar, but 96 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:58.439 no, I can separate it. I can separate them and if you, 97 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:00.240 well, I guess, I guess you do have to. But at this 98 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.480 point in your career when you're getting ready to go on, so what are 99 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:08.480 some of the different ways that you prepare now to to keep yourself healthy and 100 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.839 things that you bring with you and things that you do to mentally get ready 101 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.120 for another another trunk? Because you've always, to me seemed like you've always 102 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:19.360 been pretty good shape. So how do you prepare again? Working out? 103 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:26.759 I work out. I take in all certain foods on the road that they 104 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:30.560 don't have readily available. I'm pretty pretty strict on what I eat. I 105 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:36.680 have been for a long time. But you know, it's really it's just 106 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:42.160 a mental kind of preparation. Wouldn't anything being away from home for a while, 107 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:46.399 this tour, this we've been out for a couple of weeks, and 108 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:49.399 that's a longest I've been away from home, I think since the eighties. 109 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:51.839 We're nice to go out for like, you know, two months at a 110 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:57.000 time. Wow. And uh. And it's it's as you know, as 111 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:01.040 you do get all the home becomes more important than a bigger part of your 112 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:07.040 of your world, until it makes it harder to leave. You know when 113 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.680 you realize there's only a certain number of breaths to got left. Well, 114 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.079 geez on that note, let's get ready to wrap Rick Springfield dot com. 115 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:16.240 I'm gonna have all the links up there, and you're going to see him 116 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.600 on tour through February. Well, we'll have we follow you. It's play 117 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.439 your music, Rick, I talk about you. I appreciate everything you do. 118 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.240 You know if you can leave our fans. I always like to ask 119 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.000 you this question when we're rapping or in clothes, and I've asked you this 120 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:33.559 so many different times, and You've always come up with a different answer. 121 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:39.279 So let's see if we can't keep our streak going. But maybe maybe there's 122 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.480 a story behind one of your songs. It doesn't matter because I've always asked 123 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.840 you about Jesse. We know all those stories, but like, is there 124 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:50.240 some fun stories between a recent song that you've written that happened by accident or 125 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:54.080 is there one you know now that I'm talking right now, a story that 126 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.039 you can recall, a fun memory behind a song that you've written, so 127 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:01.120 then when we listen to it we have more of appreciation for it. Well, 128 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:05.480 actually, the song one of the ones we do live the new songs 129 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.200 is called Automatic. It's a title track from the album. And I woke 130 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:13.159 up at three in the morning with a song playing in my head. And 131 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.000 usually when that happens, you know, you go, oh wow, great 132 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.639 song, and you get up and get ready to write it down and then 133 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:24.440 realize it's a Beatles song. Its Lady's a brickl starter, subconscious plagiarism. 134 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:28.279 So but this was an original song, and I got up and turned on 135 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:33.480 tape recorder and played it, and when I woke up the next day it 136 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:39.000 was I liked it, and so I was this when you know, when 137 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:43.840 you get things in a dream, it's it's pretty magical. So that's really 138 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:48.759 where the song came from. And I don't fully know what it means a 139 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:52.840 song. I'm trying to work it out. Well, thanks to you, 140 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.279 haven't broken. We We're good. We are we are winning this question. 141 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:01.120 So until our next conversation, I wish you know thing about fun, success, 142 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:03.960 puppy kisses, and and maybe we'll see you pop up in a movie 143 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.480 or or film or TV soon. Any any nuggets there. I know there's 144 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.120 the strike going on now, but do you have any plans to do anything 145 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.840 like that? Yeah, absolutely, there's there's things in the area, you 146 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.879 know, but it's nothing solid just yet. But as an actor, you 147 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.559 you've got to have other pursuits and I certainly have that on the road and 148 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:28.679 in the studios. So until something comes up, I'm busy. All right. 149 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.720 Well, I hope you'll come back and visit me again. It's always 150 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.840 a pleasure. Have a great tour. Thanks, so I appreciate it. 151 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.759 Bye bye.