- (On reuniting with his ex-La familia Partridge (1970), series' star/real-life stepmother, Shirley Jones, who was asked to guest-star in Ruby & the Rockits (2009)): We paid her a lot of money. She is a wonderful actress. People forget she won an Academy Award. When I was young, she taught me a lot how to deal with the pressure and the fame, because she became a star when she was 18. I was 19.
- (On Shirley Jones) I can't ignore her. After all, she is the mother of my brothers.
- My father had a tremendous influence on me, and I think many children who come from broken homes, esp. when they're very early. My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. It was something in order to empower myself. I think all children, psychologically need to empower themselves, because they can't put their arms around, what it is. I made it my fault, there's something wrong with me, and it was spending time on the couch, and spending the time going through the process that I'm now the happiest ever been in my life, the most successful I've ever been in my life.
- (On referring to young ladies who would push towards the stage to get closer to him): It scared a lot of people because there was so much hysteria surrounding my concerts, a lot of parents didn't want their daughters to come to the shows thinking that they were going to get hurt. Thank God it's not like that anymore. It's fun and it's very high energy, but it's not hysteria, thank God. People actually listen to the songs and it's great.
- (Who told about his real-life childhood that was absolutely from "Keith Partridge"): 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. It was a very, I would say, turbulent, fantastic from a musical standpoint and a social standpoint, (time). The Beatles broke out when I was 13. 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. They were not legends at the time, kind of hard to imagine. I went to school with the drummer of The Doors' younger brother and we went and saw The Doors at The Whiskey. Buffalo Springfield played at my high school at an assembly. That kind of world.
- (Of his on- and off-screen professional relationship/friendship with Shirley Jones, who played Shirley Partridge): Shirley Jones is one of the best people I've ever known, and so talented, what a professional, was married to my dad, and she taught me really so much about how to deal with fame and success, because, she won an Academy Award, and was such a great influence on me, such a great role-model for me on how to deal with fame and deal with the success, because I was very young. She was 18, when she did Oklahoma! (1955), I was 19 when I did the pilot for La familia Partridge (1970), and 20, when I was doing the series, and I became very close friends with her. She still is to this day, to me, one of the greatest professionals, one of the most talented people, one of the best human beings I've ever known.
- (Of Shirley Jones): It was great. She's such a terrific role model for me. How she handled being the star of the show. Even though I emerged as the star of the show in some respects, I never ever assumed that role around her or our family or people who worked on the show. To me, she always set the tone and was always very willing to do and be a great role model. (She was) completely professional. Sweet and kind as can be. A lot of what she comes across as her television persona on that show really wasn't far from who she was and is. Strong and yet kind. Talented and caring. I love her. She is my brothers' mom and she was married to my father. She was a great help to me in my difficult relationship with my Dad and served as a great buffer. In the end he found it more and more difficult to cope with my fame and success and he was very tortured by her fame and success, as well as mine, and that he had not achieved a higher level. I loved him and admired him but I just couldn't find a way to have it be okay for him. It was a rough one for us. I forgive him for all of it. We are all flawed. Somehow or another, we all get through it. I worshipped him and loved him and I loved all of the things he gave me in my life as a human being.
- I was young, I was always ready, and they were all so willing. I'll admit I did things that I now think were degrading for the women involved, and for that I'm ashamed.
- If I take another drink, I'm going to die - physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I'm dead. You know, they say it's a slippery slope. It's not a slippery slope. It's from 12:00 to 6:00 on the clock and the whole face is ice. One sip, one drink, because there is no such thing, not to an alcoholic. You have one and you're done. I'd be done.
- My father didn't seem satisfied with anything I did. He criticized everything about me.
- (About Shirley Jones making it his father's business): My father was tortured by my family, he was tortured by my success, I mean, even Shirley, who was working with and who was married to (my stepmother). She told me on the set ("The Partridge Family"), she said, 'You're father is not coping well with this; at all. He had an incident, apparently with my manager, where who's this awesome person. Most definitely. Her name was Ruth Aarons. She had them to dinner and my father went insane at her home. Broke 2 chairs, screamed and yelled at then, of course, stormed off, stormed out, and left Shirley, there, and I know the few incidents, but Shirley came in and confided with me, and said, 'Your father's not dealing with your incredible success and your fame, you know.' He resented my success, but he was proud of my me; and my talent that I was able to do in and that I was able to make a living, as a professional, since I was 18, as an actor, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a creator/producer, etc., etc."
- 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 was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having gray hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that gray hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face. It was a problem when I was 18 and looked about 12 but it's probably working to my advantage now.
- I was one of the wealthiest young male entertainers in the world then, but 10 years later I had nothing to show for it. By the 1980s I was broke and had to rebuild my life.
- So much wasted time.
- On his mother's Evelyn Ward's Alzheimer's disease "Mom was a wonderful singer, actress and dancer. She was so full of life," he recalls. "To watch the decline of someone who raised you, who was so vibrant, is the most painful thing I have ever experienced."
- I certainly never drank or took any drugs or narcotics, contrary to whatever has been printed, when I was doing The Partridge Family or thereafter for that matter. I am most definitely an alcoholic. And the interesting thing about it and the way you end up with multiple DUIs - I never got arrested for anything until I was basically 60 years old. And I have very, very strong values about what I am and who I am.
- On his mother Evelyn Ward's death, "For me, it was a beautiful thing that she finally passed because she was so healthy. That's something I struggle with a lot."
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