I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!

on. I’m getting cold.’ Clutching the pluckers, I call her. ‘Right,

This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.