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

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.

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'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.

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 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 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.'

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

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

I think of my career as something apart from myself.

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.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

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.

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 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.'

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.

What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun.

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.

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.

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

I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

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 don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You cannot make a teenage idol.

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