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

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

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

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

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

" I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers. "

" I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. "

" Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I've had an awful lot of good fortune. "

" I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished. "

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

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

" 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 always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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