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" Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show. "

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" Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will. "

David Cassidy

God

Tough

Talent

" There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors. "

" If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination. "

" It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older. "

" Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. "

" I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time. "

" I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me. "

David Cassidy

Son

Never

" When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again. "

" I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view. "

" All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it. "

" Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence. "

" I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.' "

David Cassidy

People

Home

" The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general. "

" I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility. "

" I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides. "

" I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in many respects. "

David Cassidy

Bad

Never

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

" I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands. "

" 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'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now. "

" I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived. "

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

" Nobody likes to be rejected, you know? "

" As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life. "

" When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have. "

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

" I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior. "

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

" You cannot make a teenage idol. "

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