David Cassidy

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

— David Cassidy

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

— David Cassidy

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

— David Cassidy

I think of my career as something apart from myself.

— David Cassidy

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.

— David Cassidy

I gave up my whole life to my career.

— David Cassidy

I want to love. I want to enjoy life.

— David Cassidy

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

— David Cassidy

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

— David Cassidy

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

— David Cassidy

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

— David Cassidy

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

— David Cassidy

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

— David Cassidy

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do…

— David Cassidy

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

— David Cassidy

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

— David Cassidy

My father had a tremendous influence on me, and I think many children who come from broken homes, esp. when they're very…

— David Cassidy

In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of…

— David Cassidy

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole…

— David Cassidy

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated…

— David Cassidy

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody in the…

— David Cassidy

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably…

— David Cassidy

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son…

— David Cassidy

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment…

— David Cassidy

Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and…

— David Cassidy

I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be…

— David Cassidy

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see…

— David Cassidy

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and…

— David Cassidy

When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of…

— David Cassidy

In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful…

— David Cassidy

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some…

— David Cassidy

When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became…

— David Cassidy

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

— David Cassidy

You cannot make a teenage idol.

— David Cassidy

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.

— David Cassidy

I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.

— David Cassidy

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

— David Cassidy

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.

— David Cassidy

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

— David Cassidy

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?

— David Cassidy