I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.

Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Yeah I did put my clothes on, but my clothes took off... Could it be my clothes are putting me on??

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul.

(Remember you always have the option of taking to the sea.)

Helping others, you will find that you help your-self. Ana Maria Frith, from: Limitless Change Your Life

You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.