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

Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.

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.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.