Since I`ve been married, I have been a complete person. Before I think I was a half person. Phyllis now makes up my other half and makes me whole.

[describing his financial slump, after paying a huge default to leave The Monkees in 1969] "I had to start telling little tales to the tax man while they were putting tags on the furniture."

[As to why he didn`t rejoin The Monkees when Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones re-formed the group, c. 1986] "It would be kind of like Ronald Reagan making another movie."

[about his famous wool hat] "It had a life of its own. I used to take it off and put it in a little house, feed it . . . "

When I met Phyllis I had a feeling that I had never experienced before and I was so sure she was the girl for me I asked her to marry me before I ever asked her for a date.