Quotes from Micky Dolenz

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.

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.

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

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for four hours at a time.

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

I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.

Writing is a great love of mine.

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.

They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.

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'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

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

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

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.

What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

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.