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.

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.

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

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.

Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.

My new elf husband wasted no time in carrying me to the bed, then tumbling us both onto the coverlet.

Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do.

You do not need drugs and alcohol to change who you are - You are perfect just the way you are.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

My favorite sexual position is when the girl is facing Mecca and I am fighting off a wolf.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.