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.
David Cassidy
If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
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.
It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.
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.
There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.
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.
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'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.
What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun.
Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
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 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.
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.
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
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.
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
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.
There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
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.
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 want to love. I want to enjoy life.
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'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.
I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
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.
In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.
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!
Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
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 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'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.
Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
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.
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 don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
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.
My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.
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 played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.
I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.
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.
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
