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.

Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show.

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.

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.

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

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

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.

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.

I gave up my whole life to my career.

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.

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

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.

I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.