"I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia." ― Rick Springfield Topic(s): Success More From Rick Springfield "I’ve always treated women well." "They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time." "I’d say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say ‘matured’ but I don’t think I’d use that word in relation to my progress. I think ‘change’ is a little more accurate." More In Success "Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we’d never hoped for!"― James MacArthur "People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."― Herbert Spencer "The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment."― Henry Louis Gates