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" I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road. "

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" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act. "

" I want to love. I want to enjoy life. "

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

" 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. "

" Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits. "

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

" 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! "

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

" Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11. "

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

" In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s. "

" 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. "

" I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers. "

" If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something. "

" You cannot make a teenage idol. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Nobody likes to be rejected, you know? "

" 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. "