David Cassidy

“I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.”

“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.”

“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 wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in many respects.”

“I think of my career as something apart from myself.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'”

“You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.”

“I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.”

“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.”