You cannot make a teenage idol.
I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time.
I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
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.
My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.
Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.
I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.
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 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.'
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.
Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11.
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.
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.
