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

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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. "

" What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun. "

" You cannot make a teenage idol. "

" I think of my career as something apart from myself. "

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

" I've really sensed that people have an affection for me. "

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

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

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

" I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did. "

" I gave up my whole life to my career. "

" I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.' "

" 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 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. "

" There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives. "

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

" Nobody likes to be rejected, you know? "

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

" My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me. "

" I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.' "

" 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. "

" Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present. "

" Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing. "

" 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 found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now! "

" The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense. "

" You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work. "

" It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a pretty good singer, I guess.' "

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