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" Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.' "

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" It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. "

" Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody in the room, and you can't with a venue any bigger than that. "

" I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies. "

" I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious. "

" I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk. "

" When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in 'The Partridge Family' alongside me, so we worked together for years. "

" I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive. "

" Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual. "

" My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience. "

" It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic. "

" It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone? "

" I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing. "

" It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. "

" I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished. "

" In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot. "

" My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts. "

" Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house. "

" I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye. "

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" All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me. "

" Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy. "

" It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before. "

" Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it. "

" I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people. "

" I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. "

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