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" 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. "

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

" I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on. "

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

" 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 read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. "

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

" My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life. "

" 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. "

" What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it. "

" Nobody likes to be rejected, you know? "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face. "

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

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

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