I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.

I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

Stop yelling at the movie, you ain’t never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.