Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
From David Cassidy
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.'
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.
I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
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.
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