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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy. "

" 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. "

" I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people. "

" It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older. "

" 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. "

" 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 had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.' "

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

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

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