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?

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.

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.

Joy is sacred blessing.

It's still strange.

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.

We must protect and share the world.

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.

Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

One big reason is better than many little reasons.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.