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

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

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

The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.