There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

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.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

I can't believe I'm saying I'm a politician, but I guess that's what I am now.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.