I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

Shoe Suede Blues opened for the Monkees in the 1997 reunion tour for two shows. I went out in disguise when I played with Shoe Suede Blues.

Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Seriously, why was it tradition to stand when the bride came in? It blocked her from seeing her groom, who was the only reason she was there in the first place.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.