I Actually Got Really Petrified By The

My Parents, Especially My Mother, Were No Influence On Me Whatsoever.

Anyway, I Collapsed In France In The Middle Of A Tour. I Hadn't Been Eating Properly, I Was Getting Very Phobic About Audiences, And I Collapsed In Pure Fright.

I Was Getting Monkees Monthly And There Was A Competition To Draw A Monkee. I Did A Caricature Of Micky Dolenz And Won 10 Pounds-a Fantastic Sum Of Money For Me Then. I Bought A Secondhand Tape Recorder, Which Further Launched Me. They've Been Very Responsible For Me Getting Started.

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Knowing That Your Lenses Peep Now I Eat My Daily Bread And Into The Tape Spool I'll Be Fed

By The Early '70s I Had Gotten Reasonable And I Started To Get In Hundreds Of Groups That Rehearsed And Never Played At All. I Mean, The Most Important Thing Was To Look Good And Have A Great Name.