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!
Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
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.
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.
Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad.
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.
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 saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
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.
Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.
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.
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.
I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.
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 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.
