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" My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me. "

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" Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy. "

" All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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