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.

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!

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.

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Never neglect the charms of narrative for the human heart.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".