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" 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. "

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" Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present. "

David Cassidy

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Teen

Present

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

David Cassidy

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Mother

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

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

" My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Cassidy

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Guitar

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

David Cassidy

End

Want

" I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility. "

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

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

" 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. "

David Cassidy

Back

Never

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

David Cassidy

Believe

Celebrity

" You cannot make a teenage idol. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts. "