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

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" I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in 'The Partridge Family' alongside me, so we worked together for years. "

" 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. "

" Most people view success by the results, and I don't. "

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

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

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

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

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

" My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. "

" Nobody likes to be rejected, you know? "

" I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people. "

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

" Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect. "

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

" Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad. "

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

" I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father. "

" I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series. "