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

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

" 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. "

" It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before. "

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

" 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.' "

" You cannot make a teenage idol. "

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

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

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

" It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone? "

" 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 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. "

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

" Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence. "

" 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. "

" My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited. "

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

" Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again. "

" 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. "