A biography for David Cassidyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.”
“The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.”
“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.”
“I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.”
“Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.”
“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 music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.”
“Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11.”
“Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“You cannot make a teenage idol.”
“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.'”
“My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.”
“It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.”