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.

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.

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.

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

There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.

I am a fascist, not a racist.

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.