David Cassidy

“If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.”

“Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'”

“Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.”

“If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.”

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

“It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?”

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

“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.'”

“Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.”

“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 gave up my whole life to my career.”