The only people who didn't like it [The Monkees] were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.