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

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

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.

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 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.

Why can you see the stars at night, but not the light...

KERRYANNE: Well, if I’m so spectacular why did my husband leave me for her?” KURT: (Poor baby.) Because he’s a weak *ssh*le, and you were way too much woman for him.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Fear appears from a false vision of reality.

If I want to eat lunch, I can't go out at noon and head over to Chick-fil-A or Mac's restaurant and not get stopped.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.

The universe is a great mystery.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

I want to have a career that lasts 60 years, not six.