If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.

My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.