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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now! "

" In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it. "

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

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

" 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've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits. "

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

" It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. "