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

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

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.

Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.

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