My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

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.

He narrowed his eyes at me, pushed out of the booth and stomped over to the cash desk where Ash had returned and was playing a game on his mobile

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.

I'm not an industry artist - I'm an artist in the industry.

No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.