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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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