David Cassidy

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. ”

You cannot make a teenage idol. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”