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" 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. "

David Cassidy

Big

Singing

Nostalgia

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

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

" We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be. "

David Cassidy

Believe

Celebrity

" 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. "

" 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 wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

David Cassidy

Son

Never

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

" For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. "

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

" 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. "

David Cassidy

New

Opinion

" 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 have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically. "

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

" You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old. "

" 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. "

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

" My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee. "

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

" I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. "

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

" 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. "

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

David Cassidy

Gave

Whole

" It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly. "

" 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. "

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