The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

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

There's an audience for everything.

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

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

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

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

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

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

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.

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.

Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

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.

I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

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.

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'

We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.