Was it hard to leave the child star/teen idol stuff behind?
Yes, it was. I still haven’t left it behind. I’ve embraced it with a whole different perspective. Years ago, maybe in the early to mid ’90s, I was doing the play “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” and it got to the point where I figured, you know, stop fighting the image, because I’ll be known as the guy who sang “Puppy Love” for the rest of my life, to a certain generation. But there was a time that you were really fighting it. Big time. End of the ’80s. Actually, throughout the ’80s. It was like, just let me go. Let me loose. Let me do something else. I mean, everybody else is allowed to grow up, and yet for some reason people in show business, they freeze you in their minds and if you’re something other than that it’s met with resistance. But you know what? It’s OK. Why do you think so many child stars end up dabbling in crime and drugs? Well, they don’t really have a family base to fall back on, do they? Do you think that’s it? I think that’s it. There’s an interesting
