Musician

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.

The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.

I'm really a clean-cut kid.

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.

There's an audience for everything.