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.

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

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.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

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.

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

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.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

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

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.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

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.

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

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

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.

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.

I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.

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.

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 don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

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!

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

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.'

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

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 nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

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

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 want to love. I want to enjoy life.

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

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 work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.

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.

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.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people.

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.

I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

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