Quotes from 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.

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.

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.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

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

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.

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.

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

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.

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.

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

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've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

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 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.

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

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

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!

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

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