One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.

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.

He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.

When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

I write music. I'm in a band.

You can usually tell by the look on someone's face if they woke up counting their problems or their blessings.